Give our guys a lot of credit. They hung tough and balanced the budget without raising taxes. Yes, they had to make some compromises, used some funds and accounting measures that they normally would have not wanted to use.
However, we got through 2007 without raising TAXES...we bought some time to implement some of the real cost savings by addressing some of the "structural" issues and the Democrats still have to get their votes together to jam a tax hike through.
The biggest compromise appears to be a commitment from Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop to allow a vote on taxes for the 2008 budget. That doesn't mean they win that vote, but in the spirit of compromised he agreed to allow the Democrats to give it their best shot.
That also means we have an opportunity to muster our supporters, push for meaningful reforms and stop any tax increase the Democrats try to slide through without addressing the spending problem we have.
I just posted my morning commentary early for the weekend. Take a few minutes and read my analysis and thoughts on the deal at:
www.migop.blogs.com
Congratulations again to RightMichigan for being first on top of the news, calling our activists to action and getting much of the inside scoop.
