How does Granholm work her magic job creation on her overseas trips? By offering Swedes and Germans
huge business tax credits. How does Granholm and House Speaker Andy Dillon kill jobs in Michigan? By imposing a massive tax increase on Michigan's remaining businesses.

The Detroit Free Press reported last Sunday how the new Granholm/Dillon Michigan Business Tax is impacting our state's job providers. Below is an excerpt from the article (the headline and subheadline summarize things well):

New tax shocks business owners
Change costs them thousands more; some could leave state
Wayne Bronner, president of Michigan's iconic Bronner's Christmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, doesn't feel much Christmas spirit these days for the new Michigan Business Tax.
Compared with what his company paid under Michigan's hated Single Business Tax, Bronner's will pay about 500% more now under the new Michigan Business Tax, a supposed improvement over the SBT that took effect Jan. 1.
The increase includes a surcharge approved late last year so the state wouldn't go broke. The shock to businesses looking at their new tax liability could reopen the political debate over the state's business tax system and, even more broadly, Michigan's budget and fiscal policies as a whole.

You can read the full article here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804200667

Meanwhile, Forbes Magazine has compiled a list of the ten worst cities for jobs in the entire United States. Michigan has five cities listed among those ten worst: Detroit, Flint, Warren, Lansing, and Ann Arbor. In the article, Mark Zandi, chief economist for Economy.com cites improving education, infrastructure, and reducing business costs as keys to turning Michigan around. According to Zandi:

Finally it is important to keep costs down to try and entice new businesses. Michigan in particular has work to do on this front. Business costs in Ann Arbor, Detroit and Warren are all above the national average.