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Deja Vu all over again: Standard & Poor’s again warns Michigan GOP to stop playing games

March 12, 2007 – 11:50 am

Standard & Poor’s Rating Service today issued a public warning that our state government needs to get its budgetary act together or face even lower ratings. And the report’s author says that, “from a credit perspective, this is probably the most important legislative session in more than a decade.”
While political disputes are always accompanied by [...]

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Brains, courage and backbone

April 28, 2006 – 11:41 am

In conversations I’ve had with people up and down the district, there is a keen awareness of the challenges facing our state. Yet in Lansing, it’s more politics as usual, with the legislature alternating between frivolous legislation (like repealing a tax that wasn’t being collected) and pure obstructionism.
Despite the political games, however, there is good [...]

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Putting real reform over partisan posturing

March 31, 2006 – 11:50 am

As I’ve blogged here and here, Michigan’s Single Business Tax needs an overhaul, an idea that is supported by legislators on both sides of the aisle. This potential bi-partisan consensus makes today’s move by the State House to politics first all the more distressing. This could have been a bi-partisan solution to our state’s business [...]

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Michigan’s Single Business Tax

March 10, 2006 – 12:06 pm

The debate over Michigan’s Single Business Tax (SBT) is one of the hottest in the state right now, with Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson leading a petition drive to eliminate the SBT in 2007. Yesterday, the State House Tax Policy Committee approved a bill that would do the same thing.
Many of the issues involved [...]

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