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Monday, July 28, 2008
McCain - 2nd George HW Bush term (Daddy Bush)
psssst - flip-flop alert
If McCain wins (minus conservatives), it will likely be a second George HW Bush term (Read My Lips, No New Taxes).
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ ap_on_el_pr/ mccain_taxes_1;_ylt=ApByIeJfCaj6mI9I08RXWCrCw5R4
McCain backs off his no-new-tax pledge
By CHARLES BABINGTON AP Writer
WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.
Speaking with reporters on his campaign bus on July 9, he cited a need to shore up Social Security, saying: "I cannot tell you what I would do, except to put everything on the table."
He went a step farther Sunday with his reponse on a nationally televised talk show to a question about payroll tax increases.
"There is nothing that's off the table. I have my positions, and I'll articulate them. But nothing's off the table," McCain said. "I don't want tax increases. But that doesn't mean that anything is off the table."
Indeed, McCain frequently has promised not to raise taxes.
At a July 7 town-hall meeting in Denver, he said voters faced a stark choice between him and Democrat Barack Obama.
"Sen. Obama will raise your taxes," McCain said. "I won't." [LIAR!]
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His supporters try to say that there are glaring differences between McCain and Obamessiah. One of those differences just went "POOF", up in smoke.
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Monday, June 23, 2008
The tax shift
Also see the message (#13775) over at the Grand Rapids mlive.com forum:
http://www.mlive.com/forums/grandrapids/index.ssf
Jim Stover, Plainfield Township Treasurer, writes in the current issue of Plainfield Township's newsletter:
The Profile
volume XXXIII number 3 July 2008
County tax shift...
The last shift of Kent County operating taxes (collected 6 months EARLY, now all collected in the summer bill) happened in 2007. Starting with 2008 there will not be any increase in your tax bill due to the shift of the County Operating Tax (...the early collection, because it is all collected early now). There is some legislation in the works to shift the jail and senior taxes (collect them EARLY too) from the weinter to the summer bill.
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Do you remember when the winter and summer bills were approximately equal and were not so big. Now the summer bill is double of what the winter tax is and will be larger still if they are allowed to collect more of the winter taxes SIX MONTHS EARLY in the summer bill. Somehow, the winter bill has not shrunk that much even with the early collection of the country tax in the summer. We are seeing the incrimental tax creep upward, truly a death by a thousand cuts.
Lets identify the legislators involved in this pushing this horse manure and convince them that it will be their last legislative post if they push more early tax collections
Who was involved in the previous "midnight vote" opening the gates for the tax shift over the previous three years? Doug Hart (Mi-73) was my Representative in September 2004 when they grew a big brass pair and passed the county tax increase/shift. Tom Pearce (Mi-73) is my rep now because Hart was a coward and decided not to run again. I leafleted Hart's neighborhood about the tax increase/shift and threatened to do the same for Sikkema and a few others that participated in this crap. A staffer from Senator Sikkemas office tried to talk me down... State Rep. Sak (D) called me personally to talk, right from the chamber floor... to change MY mind, not to have me change theirs! It did not work!
Here are links to pages with the names of the dirty curs... When you look at the numbers of republicnas and Democrats, remember this was a republican controlled legislature and the numbers look very similar to the numbers of Republican and Democrats that passed amnesty (S.2611) in the US Senate. Do you wonder where the US Senate RINOs come from? I bet this is mirrored all over the country.
Lots of very familiar names, some up for re-election, some of whom have moved to from house to senate and others to other elected positions...
WARNING to TAXERS. I will publish your names once agains as in the lists above. Can you take the heat?
Taxes collected EARLY are TAX INCREASES!
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Friday, April 18, 2008
A REAL economic stimulus proposed by John McCain
John McCain has proposed one of the boldest proposals to give citizens economic relief that should ripple across the economy.
The McCain "Tax Holiday" from Memorial Day to labor Day
If John can pull this one off, it cold be the feather in his hat for the upcoming election. To make this a reality every voter needs to get on the phone and call his/her representatives and senators to voice support for this temporary summer tax cut. It would reduce transportation costs for all types of goods from food to clothing.
Of all the plans that I have seen floated, this one looks the most promising if the rest of the government can be moved to support it.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Property values down, taxes UP
Michigan Congressman Tom Pearce (73-Rep) replies to an email I sent on the subject:
James, below is an editorial explanation, from the February 21 Lansing State Journal, that I think does a good job of describing the current property tax situation most people find themselves in. I do think it is important to note that if you look at your tax bills you will find that the taxable value on your home has yet to reach the assessed value -- this is due to Proposal A, which the citizens of Michigan put in place back in 1994.
I believe the crafters of Proposal A never envisioned the kind of downturn we are currently experiencing in the state. For this reason, I do believe a fix needs to be put in place and I am supporting a bill that would make one change to Proposal A. The bill, states that if the assessed value of your home drops, then the taxable value of your home would be frozen, rather than be allowed to increase by either 5 percent or the cost of living, whichever is less.
Looking Forward and Up,
Representative Tom Pearce
73rd House District
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Prop A driving tax bills
State law allows property taxes to rise as values dip
Maria L. Irish is the City of Lansing's Assessor
It is that time again for Lansing homeowners to receive their 2008 Assessment Change -- the annual statement of your home's assessed value and taxable value.
These two numbers -- taxable value and assessed value -- can be confusing. The taxable value is the amount we use to calculate your property taxes. The assessed value (also known as the SEV ) represents one-half of your home's market value. Depending on how long you have owned your home, there can be a big difference between these two numbers. For many Lansing homeowners, the assessed value of their home is lower than last year's. This is due to the weak state of Michigan 's economy and a soft real estate market. Yet for many homeowners, the taxable value of their home has increased over last year.
How can this happen? If the market value of your home is less, shouldn't your property taxes also be less?
The answer is: not necessarily. The reason is found in the state law known as Proposal A, which was approved by Michigan voters in 1994.
Proposal A limits the annual increase in your taxable value to 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less, adjusted for losses (demolition, for example) and any additions (such as new construction).
The assessed value of your home is not affected by Proposal A. Therefore, even if the assessed value of your home is less than last year, your property taxes can still go up because the taxable value -- the number used to calculate your property taxes -- increased due to Proposal A.
This concept can be difficult to explain, so let me use an example:
Jack Anderson bought a home 10 years ago for $50,000 on Lansing 's east side. The market value of his house has since increased to $100,000, which means the assessed value has increased from $25,000 10 years ago to $50,000 today.
Yet the taxable value of Jack's home this year is only $35,000. This is because the increase in the taxable value of his home did not increase at the same rate as the assessed value. It was limited each year by Proposal A, while the assed value was not limited.
Unfortunately, the market value of Jack's home this year dropped to $90,000 due to the soft real estate market. Therefore, the assessed value declined to $45,000. So, why didn't Jack's property tax bill go down?
Answer: Because the taxable value of his home increased due to the requirements of Proposal A. As long as the taxable value remains below the assessed value, the taxable value on Jack's home can and will increase each year by the amount required under Proposal A.
This explains how your property taxes can increase, even when the market value of your home is declining. However, when the property is sold, the taxable value is "uncapped" and once again becomes equal to the assessed value.
But that is a topic for another column.
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
Property Taxes go up as actual value goes down
So even though property values are in a downward spiral, I get a tax INCREASE!
We need some legislation to protect us from the bureaucrats that operate the segment of government that can tax us out of our homes.
There is something fundamentally wrong with an increase in taxes against a loss of value in a plummeting real estate market.
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Thursday, March 06, 2008
Granholm and Cherry - Tax Dodgers according to the Feds
Thanks to Nick at RightMichigan.com
BREAKING: Granholm and Cherry busted by Feds for failure to pay taxes!!!By Nick |
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after all that talk about the importance of new revenues the
woman didn't even pay her own taxes? Shocking details are
emerging today that indicate Michigan's most prominent tax-hike
advocates, Governor Jennifer Granholm and John Cherry, are in
trouble with the federal government for, get this... refusing to
pay their taxes! The kind of trouble you don't get in for a
minor offense. The kind of trouble that only comes after
repeated notifications from the federal government.
A lien, boys and girls, is a big deal. It means that the federal government can seize assets and come to collect the cash themselves, by force. No wonder Granholm and Cherry thought the government needed additional revenue. They knew there was a gaping hole in the budget created by their own chronic and ongoing delinquency. Though delinquency might be the wrong word. That implies that they're going to eventually pay their back taxes. The Granholm Cherry Inaugural Committee hasn't really had any parties to plan for the last few years. If they couldn't be bothered to pay their taxes to this point why on earth would they start now? (Though something tells me this story might provide just the kick in the pants the feds need to collect what the duo owes.) This is the same Gov and LG who rammed a record shattering tax hike through the legislature last year, whose taxpayer funded budgets have increased by billions of dollars since 2002 and who are currently entrusted with the responsibility to budget and spend forty-three billion dollars this year alone. Tax dollars. Tax dollars normal folks paid to the government. On time. Apparently Granholm and Cherry have taken taxpayer funded paychecks so long they think that only the little people pay taxes. Can't blame this one of John Engler, or the Chinese, or the Republicans, or President Bush, or NAFTA, CAFTA, the SHAFTA, the Cookie Monster, Big Foot... I'm sorry Madame Governor... Sasquatch... But then again, this is the level of incompetence we've come to expect from the Granholm administration. Well, ok, so maybe it's a few feet deeper into the incompetence pool than most of their typical mismanagement. The biggest tax hikers in the history of the State... tax cheats. Sorta sets a whole new standard for liberal hypocrisy doesn't it?
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A couple of sources indicate that Lansing's Channel 10 News
will lead tonight's broadcast with the news that the United
States Department of Treasury has slapped a $19,500 lien on
the executive team's inaugural committee for failure to pay
taxes. That means that the same Governor and Lieutenant
Governor of the State of Michigan who last year told working
moms and dads that they had to fork over an extra $1.5 billion
currently refuse to pay nearly twenty-thousand dollars in
federal taxes.
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
WSJ on migration patterns of citizens in USA
According to Wall Street Journal and Allied Van Lines moving company, Michigan loses two residents for every one that moves in from another state.
Taxes are the reason. Democrats say that people want to pay high taxes for services... Read on:
http://online.wsj.com/ public/article_print/ SB120277561232960623.html
States of Opportunity
February 12, 2008; Page A16
An old adage says high taxes don't redistribute income, they
redistribute people. ![[State of Opportunity]](http://www.rogueriver.tzo.com/media/movin.gif)
For new evidence look no further than migration patterns within the
United States, as documented in a new survey by the moving company
United Van Lines.
A record eight million Americans -- some 20,000 people every day -- relocated to another state last year. So where are these families headed and why? The general picture is this: Americans are continuing to flee the Northeast and Midwest, while the leading destinations continue to be Southern and Western states.
The United Van Lines study finds that the biggest population loser last year was Michigan, where two families moved out of the state for every new family that moved in. Americans are also fleeing New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Without interviewing the departed, it's impossible to know the reasons for this outward migration. No doubt overall economic prospects, climate, quality of life and housing prices play a role.
But one reason to conclude that taxes are also a motivator... [more]
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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Dillon has another tax-hike in store for you after the November election!!!
Michigan Speaker of the House Dillon (D) has another tax-hike in store for you after the November election!!!
E-mail from Nick - RightMichigan.com
http://www.rightmichigan. com/story/ 2008/1/ 18/17719/ 0354
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One of our loyal readers here at Right Michigan tipped me off about a shocking Q & A session at last night's Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association (MITA) Conference yesterday evening at the Soaring Eagle in Mt. Pleasant. Andy Dillon told the audience that his caucus was going to take a vote on raising the gas tax but not until after the general election in November after each of his members was safely re-elected. Here's how it went down...
The featured attraction of the evening was a panel discussion with Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop and House Speaker Andy Dillon being moderated by Tim Skubick. This sort of event is pretty standard fare and typically doesn't offer much in the way of controversy but Skubick certainly has a way of catching politicians off guard. The entire program was going fine and the legislative leaders were appropriately on message when the following exchange took place... (I'm sure we'll read about it in MIRS or the LSJ sooner rather than later but remember, you read it here first!)...
Skubick: "Will you take a vote on the legislation to raise the gas tax before the November election?"
Bishop: "No."
Dillon: "No."
Skubick: "Will there be a vote to raise the gas tax after the November election and once all of your members are safe from voter scrutiny during the lame-duck portion of the session?"
Bishop: "No."
Dillon: "It is probable."
I'm told that an audible gasp went up out of the audience (there were about two hundred industry professionals and interested parties in attendance). Skubick followed up and Dillon reiterated that "it's probable." I guess the look on his face went pretty sour pretty fast after he realized what he'd just confirmed in public.
There's a reason Dillon is considered the Speaker of the tax-hike-caucus.
They already passed the largest tax hike in the history of the State of Michigan and even though they're telling us that they're through with the rate hikes we knew they were lying. It's all politics with these guys. They want to convince you that last year's vote was "really tough" and that they won't do it again but from the mouth of their own legislative leader, they've got one planned for immediately after the election once they're safely out of the reach of the voters!
He didn't say it was possible. He said it was probable!
Hold on to your wallets, boys and girls. The House Democrats are planning on goreing us again.
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Friday, November 02, 2007
The Turtle Fence in Michigan
History lesson: Dumbocrat Jenny Granholm coasts through 4 years as governor with deficits. In 2006 she conceals the fact and gets re-elected. In 2007 she suddenly decides that she has done a shitty job of governing Michigan since she has been unsuccessfull in forcing tax increases the first 4 years. The "Close Down Government" bludgeon used by Dumbocrats gets dusted off and hauled out. She doesnt realize that some of us feel that less government is a GOOD thing and a government not in session is a government that can do us no harm. Jenny says "I inherited a deficit". She just won the election as governor from.... Jennifer Granholm, so Jennifer Granholm left her a deficit to fix! Hmmmm....
Recently, Democrat Governor Jenny Granholm was willing to shut down the engine of state in Michigan to force tax increases on the citizens of Michigan. She got her 1.5 BILLION dollar increase in tax on income and services. Now she wants to spend tax money on a "TURTLE FENCE". Governor Granholm has adopted an "If it moves, tax it" policy to determine what will get slewered by the new services tax. Now she has 1.5 billion of new revenues to play politics with. Anyone who believes she will use it to lower the deficit when she can instead start new spending is very stupid or just gullible. Here is a letter from Congressman Pete Hoekstra.
Hoekstra Releases Letter to Governor Granholm on Turtle Fence
Washington, Oct 24 -
U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, released the following letter mailed to Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm about the turtle fence under construction along U.S. 31 in Muskegon County:
Oct. 23, 2007
The Honorable Jennifer Granholm
Governor
The State of Michigan
P.O. Box 30013
Lansing, MI 48909
Dear Governor Granholm:
In light of the fiscal crisis in which our state currently finds itself, and particularly after the massive tax increase adopted to fund state government, I am disturbed by the Michigan Department of Transportation choosing to spend $318,000 in taxpayer dollars for construction of a 4-foot-tall fence to protect turtles.
The fence will run along a stretch of highway that lies in the congressional district I represent, and despite my being aware of the remedy the fence seeks to provide, I am alarmed at the lack of prioritization demonstrated by this allocation of funding.
It is not the concept of the project, rather it is the message sent by the state that concerns me. By passing a massive tax increase, I believe that Lansing has asked the citizens of Michigan to sacrifice without first holding itself accountable and challenging itself to exercise some degree of creativity with the state’s budget. By spending $318,000 dollars on a fence to protect turtles, the citizens have effectively been told that Lansing is indifferent to their sacrifice.
At a time of such limited resources, I believe that MDOT should prioritize the allocation of federal dollars on projects that impact the movement of people or commercial products, rather than spend money on projects that make sense when times are good.
Thus, I am writing to request that you convene a working group to study how the State can better allocate funds from its budget. I am willing to volunteer my time and effort to help determine how to more effectively spend federal dollars coming into the state, and I believe others would be prepared to do the same.
As you know, approximately one-third of Michigan’s budget comes from federal funding. Yet, at no time have I nor any of my federal counterparts – to my knowledge – been approached about providing greater flexibility with the allocation of federal dollars. Cooperation amongst all parties who care about Michigan is critical in a state whose unemployment rate is 63 percent above the national average.
I have begun exploring options available – including introducing legislation – to provide states in dire straits, like Michigan, with the flexibility to help residents and businesses rebound. In fact, I fully support relaxing the restrictions placed on federal funds if Lansing bureaucrats would demonstrate some sensibility in prioritizing the state’s fiscal situation.
We must examine every opportunity to determine how we can help the Michigan economy bounce back.
I look forward to your response and cooperation.
Sincerely,
Pete Hoekstra
Member of Congress
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Profile of a Tax Hiker: Marty Griffin (D-Jackson)
cross posted from RightMichigan.com
permalink: http://www. rightmichigan.com/ story/2007/ 10/15/94238/961
Profile of a Tax Hiker: Marty Griffin (D-Jackson)
By Nick
Posted on Mon Oct 15, 2007 at 09:42:38 AM EST
"Basically, this entire package was delivered by Democrats." - Andy Dillon, Detroit News, October 2, 2007.
This is the eighth in a series of looks at specific members of Dillon's tax hike caucus. The Democrats hold a 58-52 lead in the House. A shift of just four seats returns control to the Republicans, a caucus, for what it's worth, that held the line in impressive fashion against the Democrats' tax and spend gambit. According to Andy Dillon anyways.
Four seats is more than doable. A move to a common sense approach that protects jobs and Michigan families is doable. Just a matter of getting rid of a few bad apples. Today we head down to Jackson County, the birthplace of the Republican Party and the home district of tax-hiker Marty Griffin.
STATE REPRESENTATIVE MARTY GRIFFIN (D - JACKSON)
"Martin Griffin knows how to balance a budget and keep taxes low."
That's the first sentence that greets visitors to Marty Griffin's official campaign website, MartinGriffin.net - cache . One might assume, then, that the former mayor of Jackson is a fiscal conservative with sufficient nerve to run as a low-tax moderate Democrat, a genuine rarity in the state of Michigan.
But you know what they say about assumption.
That's not to say the paragraph above didn't contain some accurate information. Marty is a former mayor of Jackson and he is a Democrat. That much is true. But he's also a far-left liberal who's doing everything he can to disguise himself in order to keep his seat in the House.
Swept into office by the great Democrat tsunami of 2006 Griffin was immediately installed as Assistant Associate Majority Floor Leader. Not because he's qualified or even because it's an important position, but because it sounds pretty cool and when casual political observers hear the title they say "oh, wow... fancy!"
Everything with Griffin is carefully crafted after being focus grouped and run through various public opinion polls.
The House Democrat campaign committee has a lot invested in Marty and they don't want it going to waste. Especially after eeking out a narrow 1,500 vote win.
So what you get is titles and headlines and canned press releases that proclaim the conservative virtues of the good Representative. And it's all pretty and happy, sunshines and rainbows and peaches and cream until you let the man start voting and he rips the carefully constructed mask off revealing the tax-hiking monster inside.
The trick for Griffin's handlers then becomes containing the monster and hiding his true nature from the voters of the conservative 64th House District. They did a pretty good job of that all year right up until the first of October.
His official state website proudly displays a press release right smack dab on the front page. It's attempting to give Marty credit for crafting the MBT, the tax package that replaced the Single Business Tax. Every last dollar of it. But here's how the headline reads:
"Griffin's Bill Passes House: Legislation cuts personal property taxes, rewards investment"
See? He's a tax cutter. They told you he was. Nevermind the fact that the MBT was a dollar-for-dollar replacement. Those are just pesky details and we shouldn't let them get in the way.
It's all a part of that image, and it was all fine and dandy until the budget crisis shutdown state government. Then there was no holding Martin Griffin back. You pay taxes and he was going to make sure you paid more, to heck with his slick marketing, prepackaging, political consultants and handlers.
It was all they could do to keep him from blowing a hole in their finely crafted image earlier in the process, counting it a victory when they delayed his impulse to raise taxes by convincing him to become a member of the Yellow Ten, the group of Democrats who refused to vote on a tax hike one way or the other for days that stretched into nights that stretched into weeks.
When his hometown newspaper, the Jackson Citizen Patriot, attempted to contact him about his refusal to do his job they were forced to report the following:
Efforts to reach Griffin, D-Jackson, were unsuccessful...
Some pundits say the non-votes by Griffin... are to provide political cover to avoid being labeled tax-and-spend liberals in the next campaign.
Political cover, slick packaging, conservative marketing. It was all pretty effective. The power players at MDP did a good job slapping faux-gold plating a $20 knock-off and making it look like a pure gold Rolex.
Unfortunately, this one's going to turn your wrist green.
When push came to shove and the votes had to be counted Griffin bucked his handlers and revealed his propensity for job-killing tax hikes, voting YES on the biggest tax hike in the history of the state of Michigan . Marty Griffin, long reigned in by his slick marketing team, broke his shackles, raced to the voting board and cast the 56th and deciding vote to raise taxes on Michigan job makers by over $613 million.
If you click back over to Martin's personal website and visit the section titled "About Martin" - cache you'll find the following sentence:
A shrewd budget planner, he has never raised taxes.
The fact his campaign site lies to the voters of the 64th District is almost certainly only an oversight on the part of his webmaster. But it serves as a reminder and proof of the age-old axiom Griffin's consultants would just as soon you forget... you can only slap so much lipstick on a pig.
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[note: I have made a local cache of the campaign website of Marty Griffin so the info can not dissapear at the whim of the Democrats or his webmaster. He provides the evidence against himself. I am just preserving it.]
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Thursday, October 11, 2007
Another employer fleeing the state... THANKS JENNY!
Thanks and a hat tip to Saul "That's Saul Folks!" for the heads-up on this.
I wonder if we will see accelerated loss of jobs now that the Granholm has her new taxes on income and services plus her retroactive slap at the states big auto companies.
Southfield, Mich.-based Arcadia HealthCare moving HQ to Indy
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Arcadia HealthCare, a provider of home health care and products, plans to relocate its national headquarters here from Southfield, Mich., and says it will create 400 jobs by 2010.
Gov. Mitch Daniels joined Arcadia Health Care Chief Executive Marvin Richardson on Wednesday in announcing the move from suburban Detroit to the northside of Indianapolis. The company plans to invest more than $3 million in the relocation and will begin hiring managers, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and sales staff later this year. As part of its relocation to Indiana, Arcadia is developing a relationship with the state's Family and Social Services Administration to market *DailyMed to the more than 100,000 Medicaid recipients as well as the 1.7 million Hoosiers enrolled in Medicare.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Arcadia up to $6 million in performance-based tax credits and up to $137,500 in training grants based on the company's job creation plans. The city of Indianapolis offered the company property tax abatement.
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[note: *DailyMed - The move comes as the company readies the national launch of DailyMed, a drug packaging system that puts patients' multiple prescription and over-the-counter medicines and vitamins into a roll of single dose packs labeled with the dates and times the patient should take the medications.]
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Tax increases are the universal Democrat cure-all. Here in Michigan, has there EVER been a Democrat sponsored and passed tax CUT? Any savings in spending is ALWAYS rolled back into another program. After all the tax-and-spenders think it is their money, not yours! Who are they? Take a snapshot of the Democrat House and Senate here in Michigan plus the Governor and Lt. Governor. Four turncoat Republicans joined them. That lapse in judgement on their part will be corrected soon.
Will the last one out, please turn off the lights? Thank You!
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Friday, October 05, 2007
WSJ Opinion Journal: Michigan's Benedict Arnolds
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Also see MichiganRecalls.com
Michigan's Benedict Arnolds
by Stephen Moore
Michigan's Sunny Afternoon of the Long Knives
Michigan Republicans and the state's leading taxpayer group are seeking revenge against the "turncoats" in the GOP who voted for what is being called the $1.7 billion "Granholm revenue grab" last Monday.
Party officials I talked to this week said there's "a movement afoot to get the pro-tax Republicans recalled." "We're not discouraging it; we wouldn't mind ousting them from the legislature and the party," one GOP official told me.
Democrats were stalemated on the tax hike without key Republican defections. The state Senate in Lansing is controlled by Republicans, but three Republicans crossed over to provide the margin of victory. They were Ron Jelinek, Valde Garcia and Wayne Kuipers. In the House, two Republicans voted for the income tax increase: Chris Ward and Ed Gaffney. This allowed swing-district Democrats a free "no" vote to inoculate them from attack.
The Michigan Taxpayers Alliance has already laid the groundwork for the recall effort. The group is working to collect signatures for the 2008 ballot and is already agitating in the districts of the defecting Republicans.
Michael LaFaive, the fiscal analyst at the Mackinac Center, a conservative think tank in Michigan, says: "Talk radio lines have been lit up ever since the early Monday morning vote was announced. People in Michigan are livid." He points to recent polling that found that two of three Michigan voters preferred spending cuts over tax hikes to close the budget gap.
There is a precedent for voter backlash against tax hikes in the Wolverine State. Back in 1983, a similar giant tax hike led to a recall effort against four state legislators, with two Senators getting ousted in 1984. This gave the majority in the Senate to the Republicans and lifted John Engler to the majority leader position, before he was elected governor.
What has voters so angry is a state economy that's already reeling from job flight and high taxes. Most voters aren't buying Governor Jennifer Granholm's line that the new taxes will pay for investments to make the state a "21st century knowledge-based economy." Michigan's 7.4% unemployment rate is the highest in the nation. The state ranks third in mortgage foreclosures. Says economist Gary Wolfram of Hillsdale College: "I suspect if we increase the minimum wage, establish a 6% tax on small businesses that provide services, and increase the income tax by 45%, we will be able to get the unemployment rate in Detroit over the 25% mark."
State legislative Republicans are trying to put the blame on Mrs. Granholm and the Democrats, but they privately concede that they would have prevailed over this largest tax increase in the country had they simply held their own caucus members. That means, and rightly so, the long knives are now out for pro-tax Republicans.
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Monday, October 01, 2007
The Quislings in Lansing - RECALL GRANHOLM
I just read over at the WOOD TV8 web site that the "Quislings in Lansing" voted in all sorts of tax increases. No details yet. They are busy with mutual back slapping in the state capitol right now. The heavy "We really needed this!" to try to convince us that a state in the pits of depression needs to be taxed some more comes next.
The following is excerpted from the WoodTV8 report.
Andy Dillon sure sounds remorsefull. "It's always tough in a recession to look at doing a revenue increase," said House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford.
But it isnt as hard to actually do it, is it Andy? Democrats always find it the easiest route, raising taxes as the prime solution of choice, here at home in Michigan or in Washington, DC. If cuts in spending can be avoided, then by gosh that is what we will do, raise taxes.
Four Republican senators voted for the higher income tax -- Patricia Birkholz of Saugatuck, Tom George of Portage, Ron Jelinek of Three Oaks and Gerald Van Woerkom of Norton Shores.
The House passed the income tax measure 57-52.
Democrats hold a 58-52 edge in the House, but three Democrats -- Martin Griffin and Michael Simpson of the Jackson area and Lisa Wojno of Warren -- voted against it.
Two Republicans, Chris Ward of Brighton and Ed Gaffney of Grosse Pointe Farms, voted in favor of the proposal.
No House Republicans voted for the bill placing the 6 percent sales tax on services -- a proposal stiffly opposed by the business community.
All Democrats did, except for Reps. Marc Corriveau of Northville and Kate Ebli of Monroe, who voted no.
Political posturing over votes, with an eye toward the 2008 and 2010 elections, slowed down the process of getting a deal in place. But you can always count on the quislings to be there to stab the citizens in the back.
Some vulnerable Democrats had resisted voting for a tax increase, while some Republicans have worried they could face recalls if they support a tax increase.
The quislings win again. But we get the final laugh at the ballot box.
It is time to take a snapshot of the participants in this tax-and-spend escapade so we know who-is-who for the next election. Why? Answer: Some very heavy "duck and run" will be happening then. The miscreants are in tight sphincter mode watching your reactions, but that will ease as the new tax money flows from your pocket to the government coffers to grease the way, like a little KY jelly. After all, as they see it, it is not really your money. They just allow you to keep a little and the rest belongs to them.
Please give me a couple "RECALL GRANHOLM" petitions to circulate.
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quis·ling [kwiz-ling] noun - someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, traitor]
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Friday, September 28, 2007
Has there ever been a recall vote on a governor?
BREAKING: Memo circulating at Capitol shows voters agree with GOP on taxes
http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2007/9/27/122716/481
By Nick Posted on Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 12:27:16 PM EST
Update [2007-9-27 12:55:5 by Nick]:Looks like the Governor's seen the memo and realizes she's losing the PR battle on her little shutdown scheme. She's asked for TV time to address the state on this whole budget debacle. Expect to turn on your sets to find breathy, impassioned rhetoric at 6:00 tonight.
Breaking news as the countdown clock to the Governor's shutdown moves under twelve hours. Remember, they're saying many services will essentially enter shutdown mode as of midnight tonight.
Amidst that backdrop, and with House Democrats scrambling to try to find SOME solution that their caucus can support (they haven't found it yet, despite their rhetoric) a memo has emerged today citing a just-completed poll of 521 Michigan voters. It has a margin of error in the neighborhood of +/- 4%.
Some of the interesting results:
- Governor Granholm has a slightly negative job rating of 45 postive to 53 negative but a highly negative 36 to 60 on her handling of the state fiscal crisis.
- Voters recognize that she's maneuvering for a shutdown and apparently they're not happy with her.
- Voters disagree with her tax proposals by 34-64. On the flipside, 58% agree with the GOP that we can avoid a tax increase by cutting waste and inefficiency.
- Only 33% of respondants believe cutting to balance the budget would even require "cutting to the bone."
And here are the big ones...
- 71% believe there is enough waste and inefficiency to cut specifically to avoid a tax increase. Only 24% believe a tax hike is the only way.
- 65% of respondants believe raising taxes would hurt the state's economy. 29% think it wouldn't have a negative effect.
More details as they become available... stay tuned (to steal a tag line).
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Recall Faces Tax Hike Supporters
Recall Faces Tax Hike Supporters
Cascade - Dr. Eric Larson knocks people out - he's an anasthesiologist. He's also hoping to knock off any legislator that votes to raise your taxes.
From his Cascade home, Larson leads a group called Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility. It's the same group that helped defeat the recent Grand Rapids Community College millage.
Larson has filed paperwork to recall several Grand Rapids area legislators, in the event they raise taxes. As of Thursday afternoon, no votes had been taken in Lansing, and no recall efforts launched.
"Our take is they should not raise taxes. They should cut spending and find ways to make government more efficient" Larson said Thursday.
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell called Larson's efforts "deplorable" and "self-serving." Heartwell said Thursday "We need the revenues - there's no way we can sustain an all-cuts budget. We absolutely have to have the revenues." (Add George to the list of possible recall targets. "Self Serving" my hairy ass! What do you think our wallets are, George, a self serve cafeteria for tax and spenders? "Hmmm I think I will take a serving of those 20 dollar bills over there in that wallet.")
Grand Rapids Democrat Robert Dean, who has yet to vote on any tax plan, said he's not concerned about the pressure. "I was sent here to do a job, and if I end up here two years, OK then I did the job I was sent to - that's what I've got to live with, not to position or posture or trying to save my seat," Dean said Wednesday.
WRONG, Mayor Heartwell! With a shrinking population, the state can not keep spending at the rate it is now and expect the rest of us to make up the difference.
While Dr Larson may have been the most visible tip of the spear, by no means was he the only one supporting the No New Taxes issue with the GRCC tax vote. A few of us hit the phones and walked the sidewalks, knocking on doors.
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Granholm only wants 3 billion - well its 1.5 billion now
Here is a re-post of the article from February 20, 2007 back when Granholm started her rant to raise taxes. Our Republican representation in Lansing has valiantly staved off all of the Granholm attempts to tax Michigan back into prosperity. We know that this is not possible but on the subject of raising taxes, the dems are always optimistic. With the current budget battle at a fever pitch this is most appropriate.
The Granholm tax monster only wants 3 Billion of your money... this year it is 1.5 billion.
You suck it up so the state doesn't have to! Why should the state have to make cuts when it is so much easier for you to just stop eating or driving your car? Better yet, leave Michigan and the Granholm will lose her hold on you. What, you cant just up and move? Your property will not sell for what the state has assessed you at... according to the state (and Granholm) that is tough shitski.
They just upped my property equalized value $1,800. AND the guv is still hungry. She wants MUCH bigger tax increases!
Thanks and a hat tip to Saul Anuzis at "That's Saul Folks!"
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Monday, July 23, 2007
JUST VOTE NO ON TAX INCREASE- August 7, 2007
NO NEW TAXES
On August 7th the tax and spenders are hoping you will stay home so they can pass a tax increase. If you do not vote on Tuesday, August 7 2007, and then see your tax bill go up, don't cry, you did vote by ignoring your civic duty. A no-show is a YES vote for higher taxes. If this is your feelings on raising taxes, you dont need to show up because the BIG tax crowd will have their proponents lined up ready to vote you a tax increase. By now you all should have been hit in the wallet by your increased summer tax by several hundred dollars county tax collected six months early (authorized by Sak, Koetje, Sikkema, and more). The tax-and-spenders want to jack up your tax bill even larger. If you look, GRCC is itemized seperately. They have been building like crazy downtown and now want you to pay additional because they built all these shiny new buildings and want to fill them with bodies at your expense.
If you go look in the MLive.com Grand Rapids forum (message 9649), one of the writers (CNRCO) calls this tax "an increase by a thousand cuts"... Twenty bucks here and another twenty there and after a while it adds up to some serious money. Also see the debate continue in message 9680 on MLive.com... unfortuantely it's mostly all the same players. Very few new voices in the forum. MLive.com is the Booth News Group (GR Press, Anal Arbor News, Kalamazooty Gazette, etc) online presence so this may turn people off. I have wondered how many commenters are staffers of the GR Press.
But why have I not heard anything about this tax increase?
Whenever they want to push through a tax increase the taxers will wait until August and hope you are away on vacation. They are very low key and hope you do not notice that the election is coming until it is here. The local mass media is in full participation on this. The local radio and TV stations, news papers, you name it! Then they hope you will be too busy to get to the polling place. They know who their supporters are and have them all lined up to pass a tax increase for you. They want to bypass the Headlee Amendment that keeps them from just assessing an increase on you.
"I have to work. I am too busy to bother with a small vote like this."
"Go home to vote... dont be silly."
"Oh it is just a school election. I never bother with those."
"The tax failed in the last election. It will again this time so I dont need to bother."
If you don't vote, don't cry about the size of your tax bill!
NO NEW TAXES
If you live in these areas you have this on the ballot:
- Bowne Township - Alto Downtown Development Authority
- Byron Township - Local Development Finance Authority, Downtown Development Authority, Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority
- Cascade Charter Township - Downtown Development Authority
- City of Cedar Springs - Downtown Development Authority, Local Development Finance Authority
- City of Grand Rapids - Grand Rapids Downtown Development Authority, Grand Rapids Monroe North-Tax Increment Finance Authority, Grand Rapids Smartzone - Local Development Finance Authority, and Grand Rapids Brownfield Redevelopment Authority
- City of Grandville - Downtown Development Authority
- Village of Kent City - Downtown Development Authority
- City of Lowell - Downtown Development Authority
- Village of Middleville - Local Development Finance Authority, Downtown Development Authority
- Plainfield Charter Township - Downtown Development Authority, Plainfield Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority
- City of Rockford - Downtown Development Authority
- Village of Sparta - Downtown Development Authority
- City of Walker - Downtown Development Authority, Brownfield Redevelopment Authority
- City of Wyoming - Downtown Development Authority, Local Development Finance Authority
- Gaines Township - Division Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority
- Grand Rapids Township - Plainfield Avenue Corridor Improvement Authority
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