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Another republican tax hike in the works?By KG One, Section News
Another republican tax hike in the works?
Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein. They just don't get it, do they? Whose pocket are they looking at picking this time and why?
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After seeing a substantial segment of its population make for the `burbs toot sweet, the City of Detroit realized that it has a problem.
It's not how do they pare down local government to better serve a dwindling population. Don't you realize that city government's sole purpose is as a jobs provider? Just shut up and give us your money! No, the problem began when Detroit and a number of other Michigan cities decided to start shaking down the citizenry back in '62 (and non-residents around the same time) by directly imposing an income tax on their earnings, partially thanks to P.A. 284 of 1964. Detroit has always been looking for new and innovative ways to increase revenue...including making sweetheart deals in Lansing to increase their cut over the years. Well, the times, they are a-changin. Without the population to fulfill the criteria specifically written in the Act to apply only to the City of Detroit, Detroit is now looking at losing a substantial sum of revenue. Shudder! What to do? What to do? Never fear! Here comes the cavalry. Their "solution": Rewrite the law to allow for a lower population threshold for city income taxes. Great plan. Just for fun, take a wild guess as to which city all of this bill's sponsors hail from? I'll wait.
. . . . . . . . If you answered: Detroit. Bingo! Give brainiac the fluffy doll. Now, there are a number of problems with this bill, among which: - The City of Detroit is still allowed to impose a graduated income tax. Something that Article 9, Section 7 of the Michigan Constitution specifically prohibits.
Art IX § 7 Income tax. - You are only delaying the inevitable. Much like the current argument in Washington about raising the debt ceiling, giving Detroit more money is like giving crack to an addict and then scratching your head asking why they're still a druggie after all this time. And finally, - Non-residents are charged a tax. Do the words "No taxation without representation" ring a bell? I vaguely remember hearing something about that in a history class once? This last point personally burns me up because of the fact a number of years back thanks to an office screw-up, I was mistakenly assigned to one of our locations in Detroit . I was assured by my dispatchers that they would take care of the situation and put me back where I was originally dispatched out of when I hired in. It took them two months to finally fix the problem, but it took HR only two days to track me down with their papers for me to sign for Detroit withholding tax. The fact that I personally requested a terminal outside of Detroit for this very reason and that it was an office screw-up didn't matter. King Coleman wanted his money. I politely told them at that time what I thought of their mayor, their tax and their forms along with what they could do with all three. Needless to say I didn't make any new friends that day (they were unabashed Detroit-boosters and residents), but in the end they didn't touch my paycheck. A city literally lying in ruins all around me, basic city services are nowhere to be seen, I have absolutely no say in the day-to-day goings on and I was expected to unquestionably pay for that?!? NO ONE should ever have to go through a similar situation as that.
Contact your elected officials and tell them to vote "NO" on H.B. 4623 today.
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