  Kimmiann Member Username: Kimmiann Post Number: 41 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 155.139.40.51 |
From this morning's Detroit Free Press, this article suggests tax cuts are not as beneficial to a region as some may think. I thought the report was worth sharing and am going to take some time to find out more about it's source. In the meantime, what do you think? http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=/20060607/NEW S05/606070315/1122 | ||
Mthouston Member Username: Mthouston Post Number: 101 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 63.77.247.130 |
I think the article points out some important issue. Michigan's recovery is going to be a long hard road. Tax cuts are not going to be the panacea many groups claim they will be. | ||
Kimmiann Member Username: Kimmiann Post Number: 42 Registered: 10-2005 Posted From: 155.139.40.51 |
Here's the website for the group publishing the report: http://www.michiganfuture.org/ I'm still looking for more objective information. | ||
River_rat Member Username: River_rat Post Number: 137 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 68.166.44.44 |
Michigan Future -- another gang of social engineers who put out paper and little else other than tired ideas. | ||
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup Post Number: 1089 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.129.146.186 |
and your contributions are what again? | ||
Karl Member Username: Karl Post Number: 2704 Registered: 09-2005 Posted From: 68.230.22.99 |
Well then, raise taxes even higher, and watch businesses and new residents flock to Michigan? Or, do nothing and accept the status quo. Or, strive to become a top 10, low tax state and see what happens. PS - labor issues might have something to do with it also. | ||
Ron Member Username: Ron Post Number: 172 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 66.174.79.240 |
"Republican House Speaker Paul Hillegonds, outgoing Detroit Regional Chamber Chief Executive Officer Dick Blouse and Public Sector Consultants policy guru Craig Ruff" Yep, one big group of social engineers with tired ideas............... | ||
Treelock Member Username: Treelock Post Number: 127 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 68.77.166.98 |
buncha crazed, pan-socialist lefty communists. Burn the report! | ||
Treelock Member Username: Treelock Post Number: 128 Registered: 03-2005 Posted From: 68.77.166.98 |
Let's cut taxes drastically and stop funding higher ed, Medicaid and K-12 education and quit doling out revenue sharing to cities. Then let's see how many college graduates will flock to our cities, which will by then: offer no recycling or bulk trash pick-up; drastically scale back policemen and firefighters; be full of drop-outs and diseased indigents; have no money for things like blight clean-up or streetscape improvements; have sold off all remaining public parks for revenue; and have crumbling water and sewer lines and roads that resemble moonscapes. Yes, THIS sounds like a Michigan we can all believe in. | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1492 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 66.238.170.33 |
Yes, and we also know how terrible the economy is in those high tax areas like Boston, Minneapolis, San Fransisco, Seattle, NYC, etc. Thank god all these tax cuts in Michigan are finally paying off! Keep slashing away neo-cons! | ||
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289 Post Number: 1172 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 68.61.183.223 |
Lets just bomb Detroit... sue the government and the insurance companies for treating Detroit different than new orleans and mississippi, then have a shitload of money to build the city of the future. Fuk, we get punished because we dont live in a high risk area... lets try to collect. Come on.. think of how much construction would boom! Im just kidding | ||
Bob Member Username: Bob Post Number: 1020 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 64.12.116.204 |
Just look at the pathetic education system in states like Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, they may be stealing the jobs, but the standard of living there is so much lower than here, their university systems are awful. Yes, we don't need to raise taxes, because that will also hurt us, but lowering them will not be this huge boost to Michigan's economy that people like Dick DeVos would like to make you think. One of the most important things this state could do right now is make higher education affordable to all, and when I say higher education, I don't just mean 4 year colleges, but also community colleges and technical schools. | ||
Tomoh Member Username: Tomoh Post Number: 199 Registered: 11-2004 Posted From: 24.136.10.153 |
Taxes are the wrong place to focus. We keep getting stuck shifting focus away from the real things we need to work on. | ||
Wsukid Member Username: Wsukid Post Number: 147 Registered: 06-2004 Posted From: 69.14.145.38 |
We are not a high tax state we are some where in the middle. Here are some novel ideas that could help michigan recover 1. Actually fund the education system K-College above the level of inflation. 2.Dont introduce immigration bills that make the state look like we dont want immigrants 3. Force regionalism among metropolitian areas 4. Encourage Stem cell research so we can create jobs 5. FREAKING create a new DARTA legislation of course this wont happen until the republicans lose power | ||
7milekid Member Username: 7milekid Post Number: 69 Registered: 01-2006 Posted From: 68.41.222.28 |
what a worthless article, no value whatsoever. | ||
Rasputin Member Username: Rasputin Post Number: 3630 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.252.70.123 |
Shouldn't that title be: "WHITEballing..." Nothing Black about theose decisions or the philosophy behind it, nor is it being done by anyone that is Black!! Go figure on continual institutional racism. Code words to the max and slavery ain't dead either!! Black-atcha ..... | ||
Focusonthed Member Username: Focusonthed Post Number: 242 Registered: 02-2006 Posted From: 209.220.229.254 |
Haha. | ||
Unclefrank Member Username: Unclefrank Post Number: 43 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 192.85.50.1 |
Our great education system is sure helping us eh! We just educate people to thrive in other states. | ||
Livernoisyard Member Username: Livernoisyard Post Number: 817 Registered: 10-2004 Posted From: 69.242.223.42 |
Granholm wants to tax us yet more for educating workers for exporting to other states at our (meaning taxpayers') expense. Makes perfectly good "sense" to a teacher, teacher unionist, or a politician who is "bought" by the former two. |
