Today’s Record Eagle contained a ‘hit piece’ I knew was coming. Front page news. And with a bad picture of me. Titled Commissioner: Pedophilia linked to Homosexuality – Comments made during official business visit, the article relates my calling “homosexuality…
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…