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Senate MBT roadshow just eyewash for us boobs

By Angry White Male, Section News
Posted on Thu May 08, 2008 at 10:01:56 PM EST

It's just another political dog-and-pony show. Ring-master Jansen and the other Michigan Business Tax subcommittee members - Repubs Cassis and Gilbert, Dem Prusi - all voted for the MBT. Moreover, Jansen also voted for every penny of the $1.470 billion-worth of increased spending paid for by last year's monster bipartisan tax hikes. Gilbert and Prusi came close at $1.339 billion and $1.205 billion, and Cassis came in at "only" increasing spending by $217 million. IOW, Jansen and his buds on this phony committee have no intention of eliminating the tax, or even reducing it or the spending it pays for - they just want to strike a pose to fool biz owners, grass roots conservatives, and us into thinking that they are "on our side."

BS, Mark and colleagues. You showed by your votes whose side you're really on.

Here Charlie Brown, I'll hold the football and you run and kick it . . . Nuh-uh, not me, not anymore, pal.

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Senate MBT roadshow just eyewash for us boobs | 10 comments (10 topical, 0 hidden)

Phony tears (none / 0) (#1)
by NoviDemocrat on Fri May 09, 2008 at 12:51:08 AM EST

I bet that the majority of the businesses crying over their tax liability under the MBT never said one word against the SBT when it was some other business stuck paying the way. Now that the MBT has shifted the tax burden off manufacturers and made other sectors pay their fair share, they're crying about how unfair it all is.

Aaaaaaand... by Nick, 05/09/2008 06:09:26 AM EST (none / 0)
Yeah! Let's punish those whining job providers! by Angry White Male, 05/09/2008 10:10:08 AM EST (none / 0)

Most business by NoviDemocrat, 05/09/2008 08:34:28 PM EST (none / 0)

Oops! by Angry White Male, 05/12/2008 02:29:24 PM EST (none / 0)

Actually NoviDemocrit.. (none / 0) (#5)
by JGillman on Sat May 10, 2008 at 08:08:15 AM EST

Michigan businesses have been complaining for some time.

A Business tax that has little to do with profits, and is imposed without regard to the business owners ability to pay, is somewhat like the sheriff coming to take the last of the farmers chickens for the king.