Tax Increase Won't Go to Roads
NO MORE GENERAL FUNDING TAX INCREASES... Our Roads, like our Schools, need REAL REFORMS not just more money thrown at them and Patrick Colbeck and a few other Legislators are the only ones demanding we...
View ArticleLansing Should Live Within Its Means
Dear fellow taxpayers, On May 5, voters will be asked to approve a $1.9 billion tax increase of which only $1.2 billion will actually be used for road repairs. Please consider this increase will place...
View ArticleJust Fix the Potholes
Dear Taxpayer, On May 5th we will be voting on a Constitutional Amendment and a a package of bills that will go into effect if the Amendment is approved. The Proposal will increase the sales tax from...
View ArticleMI Citizens do with less - so should Lansing
In response to Senator Mike Kowall’s commentary, “Michigan Senate sets an ambitious agenda for 2015,” I would like to respond. Personally I would have preferred that the MI Senate had set an ambitious...
View ArticleDemand Accurate Prop 1 Ballot Language
Dear Election Officials and State Board of Canvassers, I am writing to request that the title for Prop 1 and the specific ballot language for Prop 1 accurately reflect what Michigan citizens will be...
View ArticleFund Our Roads with Hollywood subsidies
The first step of what could be a major victory for Michigan’s middle class takes place in Lansing this week. The House Committee on Tax Policy will be voting on House Bill 4122. Passing this bill out...
View ArticlePoliticians Addicted to Taxes
This May voters in Michigan will go to the polls, but not to elect any politicians. We will be asked whether the legislature should raise the state sales tax. Sounds simple enough. One percent is a...
View ArticleProp 1 Funds Affirmative Action and Mass Transit
I can’t believe our parting Lawmakers would leave us with such a mess as the May 5 election Proposal 1. It is so confusing. Most will think it is just a simple proposal to change the Michigan...
View ArticleProp 1 is a Bait and Switch
Because the state will not assure us the one percent increase in the sales tax will go directly to road repair, this is another bait and switch by our elected leaders. Much like the lottery years ago....
View ArticleIt's a 16.6% Tax Increase
Below is an email exchange between Bob Hamer and Thayrone X of WAAM Radio. Bob encourages Thayrone to quit calling the Snyder Tax Hike a 1% increase, as increasing the sales tax from 6% to 7% is...
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