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    Tag: Commerce

    Money for Dredging is a Problem?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Thu Mar 07, 2013 at 03:22:09 PM EST
    Tags: Hooray for Hollyweird?, Bill Ford, Silverdome, EFM, Pontiac, Crony Capitalism, That's Bulls#!t, Waterways, Harbors, Harbor of Refuge, Commerce, Littoral Property, Watercraft, registration fees, gas tax, Sales Tax, Tourism, Dredging, HB 4197, SB 0164, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    Consider this a double feature with CS, and Jarrett Skorup at Mac Center

    The Disney blockbuster "Oz: The Great and Powerful" opens tonight. The film cost the studio about $200 million to make, but Michigan taxpayers chipped in substantially for the production through the state's generous film subsidy program. In fact, the state paid more per taxpayer than the average price of a movie ticket - Michigan residents should be seeing the film for free.

    Michigan has 4.5 million individual taxpayers, and the state gave the film studio $39.7 million to shoot in Pontiac. That works out to a subsidy of $8.82 per taxpayer while average ticket prices nationwide are $7.96.

    The subsidy was granted in 2010 when the program refunded up to 42 percent of Michigan expenses to film makers - essentially a check from the treasury to Hollywood studios. The program expired, but the Legislature, dominated by Republicans, overwhelmingly decided to keep it around.

    Despite "conservatives" who claim to not like the government picking winners and losers and "liberals" who say government shouldn't benefit large corporations and big business, Michigan politicians continue to spend taxpayer money on the program. The state has budgeted $50 million  this year with political leaders on both sides of the aisle pushing for more.

    REST

    What total crap.  Lansing could only find a way to free up 29% of the monies for maintaining our waterways in comparison to what Hollywood ripped off on one movie filmed in a mismanaged broke-ass city with an EFM.  You read that right.  $11.5M, and STEALING $8.7M from projects already underway to pay for dredging.

    The Governerd's half billion dollar piggy bank?  Hands off.  Damn near $40M in our tax dollars sent to Disney with assets totaling $74.8 Billion?  No problem.  The Water Wonderland?  Take a hike.

    This is why politicians are despised.

    (7 comments) Comments >>

    Littoral Living: Highest Property Taxes in the State


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Tue Feb 12, 2013 at 03:03:20 PM EST
    Tags: Waterways, Harbors, Harbor of Refuge, Commerce, Littoral Property, Watercraft, registration fees, gas tax, Sales Tax, Tourism, Dredging, HB 4197, SB 0146 (all tags)

    For the premium paid, why are funds for dredging even an issue?

    Detroit News

    The state Senate is considering taking $30 million from Michigan's rainy day fund for emergency dredging of harbors and waterways this year to relieve shallows that threaten the state's boating industry as a result of historic low levels in the Great Lakes.

    That proposal was unveiled Tuesday as part of a broader set of options for dealing long-term with the recurring need to dredge the state's 90 recreational harbors that cater to recreational boating. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers use federal funds to maintain appropriate depths in commercial harbors handing 100 million or more tons of cargo per year.

    Lawmakers portrayed it as a quicker and more robust alternative to Gov. Rick Snyder's call for $22 million in emergency funds that would be used to address the problem in the current budget and $8 million the following year. That was included in the governor's budget plan.

    MORE

    The article goes on to state that MDOT's budget may be tapped.  Perhaps, that's not out of the question considering how many boats I see filling up at gas stations paying road tax.  Well, at least the ones not using Rec Gas, and Off-road Diesel like I do, anyway.  Better question is where in the Hell has all the registration fee monies gone?  Has anyone actually sat down and looked at the Watercraft Fee Schedule?  It's got-damn obscene.  Add insult to injury, the article glosses over reviving a local tax grab scheme too.

    "Everything is on the table," said state Sen. Geoff Hansen, R-Hart, who is taking the lead in the effort.

    No, Sen. Hansen.  $630M rainy day fund?  It's enough of the Bee esS.  No new taxes - period.  Dredge the damn waterways.

    (2 comments) Comments >>

    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Unintended Consequences?


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Sat May 12, 2012 at 09:19:43 AM EST
    Tags: Main Street Fairness, DICK Durbin Plan, Rick Snyder, Tax Enforcement, Internet Sales, Online Model, Small Business, Michigan, Equal, Taxes, More Taxes, More Paperwork, Commerce, 9-9-9, Herman Cain, Federal, Sales Tax (all tags)

    Everybody wants to operate under a fair taxing field.

    Certainly this is the premise which the main street fairness act is being pursued. It is a means under which sales nexus will be identified, and taxes would be collected for sales made online for anything coming into the state that was purchased online.  It has the support of our governor, and looks to be heavily pushed with the claim that even elected conservatives are interested in it.

    Not this one.

    This is another one of those deals where instead of removing the regulatory misery under which retailers and business owners operate, it is presumed the better way toward fairness is to inflict it upon as many others as possible.   They are suffering, so can you. Share the pain.  And our governor Rick Snyder is now embracing it.

    What will this mean to online wholesalers like myself?

    I will ultimately have to deal with a number of sales tax licenses and a nightmarish bureaucracy entanglement.  I will have to report to not only my own state, but others within this compact agreement to be able to ship within those states legally.  I will not be able to ship to my customer's customers in Michigan directly, without revealing the transparent drop ship patterns.  Other states that are not a part of the compact would have their own plans which would cause harm to my model (California is already doing this) by imposing their own nexus rules even possibly based on volume shipped to their states.

    It will hurt folks using my business model from the crushing paperwork aspect alone.

    And it's just more big government making sure nothing escapes their grasp, by pretending small business actually wants it.

    (3 comments, 884 words in story) Full Story

    And in Other News


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Feb 28, 2012 at 02:31:09 PM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Obamacare, Dingell, Upton, Rogers, Commerce, Death panels, Call Today (all tags)

    Fred Upton's Committee Voting Tomorrow to Kill Obamacare "Death Panels!"

    Everyone's attention is rightly focused on Michigan's big Presidential Primary today but I figured this would be as good a day as any to chime back in here at RightMichigan with some other important news that is flying way under the traditional media's radar.

    Time doesn't stand still during the primaries.

    See you below the fold ~

    (400 words in story) Full Story

    STRIKE DAY! Taking It Up a Notch


    By apackof2, Section News
    Posted on Thu Jul 16, 2009 at 12:57:20 PM EST
    Tags: 111th Congress, commerce, current events, government, money, over spending, protest, spending, STRIKE DAY, taxes, tea party, tea party 2009, the Fed, trillion dollar debt, grassroots in michgan (all tags)

    (7 comments, 717 words in story) Full Story

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