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    Get Ready to Rock! Tax Hike Vote Today!


    By leondrolet, Section News
    Posted on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 12:42:57 PM EST

    Update [2007-9-12 14:48:10 by Nick]: (Editor's Note: By way of update, the House held their vote and the motion went down to defeat 50-45. They needed 74 members to actually move the thing... a two-thirds majority. The 45 NO votes? Republicans. The 50 YES votes for higher taxes? Democrats. It's also worth noting that seven "vulnerable" Democrats abandoned their caucus and the looney-toons echo chamber in the regressisphere by refusing to cast a vote.)

    According to highly trusted moles, the state House will vote today on a resolution that will put an increase in the sales tax on the January 15 presidential primary ballot.

    The increase would be from 6 cents per dollar to 7 cents per. This is an increase of almost 15%! According to the Detroit Free Press (Sept. 6, 2007), that would tie Michigan for the highest state sales tax in the nation!

    Having the highest sales tax in the nation will really help our economy! Tourists will flock here for our higher prices. Actually, tourists will see our "Pure Michigan" ads and think, "Poor Michigan" and vacation elsewhere.

    Actually, the 15% sales tax hike will create jobs - in Indiana and Ohio, where people will travel to buy big-ticket items. Heck, if they travel to Indiana to save a buck on a pack of cigarettes, how many more want to save $100 on a new set of furniture? Or save on a dishwasher?

    Senator Bishop has a list of $1.7 billion in spending cuts. Save Michigan jobs and support Bishop's cut list!

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    Get Ready to Rock! Tax Hike Vote Today! | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 hidden)
    Every Republican (none / 0) (#1)
    by NoviDemocrat on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 02:22:57 PM EST
    in the House and Senate should line up behind those cuts! Please let all of your constituents know of your support for higher local taxes and higher tuition payments while refusing to take any cuts in Legislative pay, benefits or staff.

    If at first they don't succeed... (none / 0) (#3)
    by Shell on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 03:35:35 PM EST
    According to the Detroit News' latest update, the dems are going to try again on Friday.  

    They're still in denial about the meaning of the word, "no."

    Shell,
    The Conservatrarian

    Some honesty from JG (none / 0) (#4)
    by NoviDemocrat on Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 04:30:55 PM EST
    Nice to see that you can admit that Bishop is passing the buck by sticking it to the locals in state revenue sharing cuts. As far as college tuition goes, feel free to make that argument to the thousands of Michigan parents sending their kids off to school this year.

    • Honesty, sure by John Galt, 09/12/2007 05:17:01 PM EST (none / 0)
    • I'm one of them by gnu2u, 09/12/2007 09:55:47 PM EST (none / 0)
      • Tuition by Jake, 09/13/2007 04:00:00 PM EST (none / 0)
    I agree... cutting the legislature's budget is no (none / 0) (#8)
    by Nick on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 11:03:30 AM EST
    panacea BUT part of leadership is LEADING.  A foreign concept to the Governor and the Speaker of the House, but it's still true.

    And there's no more effective way to lead than by example.

    Governor (none / 0) (#9)
    by NoviDemocrat on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 01:33:07 PM EST
    The Governor has given back a percentage of her pay each year in office. The issue isn't how much of a sacrifice legislators would be asked to make (not much for a group that voted themselves a massive payraise a few years back) but whether they have any credibililty asking state employees to take cuts that they themselves are unwilling to do.

    • I agree by Nick, 09/13/2007 02:05:30 PM EST (none / 0)
    • Interesting... by John Galt, 09/13/2007 03:55:07 PM EST (none / 0)
    Payraises (none / 0) (#13)
    by NoviDemocrat on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 05:15:47 PM EST
    The payraises had to be voted down by the Legislature not to take effect. So technically it wasn't a "vote for payraises". But the effect was the same, a 40% payraise for legislators. Let's recall that this was a Legislature where Republicans controlled both houses and had the votes to vote down a payraise but didn't. This is where we insert Nick's lecture about having the votes.

    What year was the 40% pay raise? (none / 0) (#15)
    by NoviDemocrat on Thu Sep 13, 2007 at 11:14:25 PM EST
    Let's try getting the basic facts right.

    DeGrow (none / 0) (#17)
    by NoviDemocrat on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM EST
    Wasn't he a Republican?

    Pay raises (none / 0) (#21)
    by NoviDemocrat on Fri Sep 14, 2007 at 11:32:45 PM EST
    JG - what year was the 40% pay raise? What was that? Oh, that's right, before Granholm was ever Governor. Nice try. Back to the history books for you.

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