Author: JGillman

Eliminate The MBT – Rankings Improve Immediately

Replacing Michigan Business Tax With Flat Corporate Income Tax Would Improve Tax Foundation Corporate Tax Ranking >From 48th to 22nd Eliminating the MBT completely and offsetting it with spending cuts would create a conservatively estimated 120,000-plus jobs by 2016, analyst…

Dead Ponies

One of the toughest things for Republicans elected to positions that have, as a matter of course the spending of taxpayer money, is the ‘supporting business’ angle. Perhaps it could even be called a ‘supporting the economy’ paradigm. Business is…

Happy Birthday Ronald Reagan

Reposted to multiple locations. No politician that I am aware, has elicited the kind of emotional fondness from both sides of the political spectrum as Ronald Reagan.  Often, the praise exhibited by those on the left is that which describes…

Michigan Legislative Tracker Feb 1 2011

Alrighty then! Common sense in allocating finite assistance, annexation rules changes, sign limitations.. bullying law, expansions of driver responsibility fees, unemployment modifications, and a contribution by state employee adjustment. And then even more. That is just a taste..  but one…

The Great Health Care Bluff

Folks watching the slow motion train wreck known as the health care bill have been wondering if along the way to becoming law, had that congress lost its institutional mind?  In three thousand pages of legislation, the physician flogging, pharmaceutical…

MI Legislature Daily Tracker

I’m going to try something a little different. Of course any of you can check the journal from the state (from where I will be gathering this info) but hopefully, this makes it a little easier to find on a…

Virtual Self Determination

From the Mackinac Center Study: Virtual Learning Can Improve Student Outcomes and Save Money Michigan should expand leadership role in online education; thousands of K-12 students currently participate in hundreds of online programs throughout the state, but unnecessary restrictions limit…

Why Did The Granholm Cross The Road?

To get another taxpayer funded job. Sadly this joke of a former governor is going to spread her ‘expertise’ on job creation to young minds of mush at UC Berkely. Seen in multiple news reports, including those at Michille Malkin’s…

A Letter From A Friend

Received this from a friend, who like many folks has felt compelled to make commentary on the political state of our affairs.  Like many who are causal political onlookers, Chris is a thoughtful person who has never held back on…