It is all a coercive shakedown, unless your business model operating on those "fat city" percentages can demonstrate otherwise.

I'm also not sure where you're coming from with the "we gotta pay our bills" nonsense, but I would suggest you look deeper into some of those bills, HB 4669 in particular, in the area of LEO monies allocation, then tie that to Matt Lori's agenda to bring .08 highway law into everyone's off-road (boating, snowmobiles, ORV) recreational activities.

Lansing is sitting on a budget surplus, and has been for some time now.

We are told that more new taxes are "necessary", without any rationale or evidence to support that assertion.

And this is all coming from people belonging to a party that purports to:

"I BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility and allow individuals to keep more of the money they earn. "

Since Lansing feels that the surplus shouldn't go back to where it originally came from, any new tax/fee hikes should've gone down in flames.

They haven't.