I’ve blogged now a couple different times about the political stunts being played by Republicans in the State House with the Single Business Tax.

But don’t just take my word for it. Look at what the Traverse City Record-Eagle has to say. Or the Detroit Free Press. Or the Grand Rapids Press. Or the Muskegon Chronicle. Or the Lansing State Journal. Or the Saginaw News. Or the Port Huron Times Herald. Or the Flint Journal. Or opinion columnists Peter Luke, Ron Dzwonkowski, and Brian Dickerson. When it comes to the GOP’s irresponsible stunt, we all agree: the people of Michigan deserve better than election year gimmicks.

The bottom line is this: at a time when budgets for state programs have already been cut to the bone, cutting another $1.9 billion from the general fund without telling us which programs you’ll cut or whose taxes you’ll raise is deeply irresponsible. And if replacing the SBT is such an emergency, why do we have to wait 21 months to do it? Why not propose a plan this year? And why did the State House fail to even consider the governor’s plan to reform the SBT last year?