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Tag: From 8 with lifetime benefits to 50

Good News On The Guv Nerdholm Income Tax Affront

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 11:29:25 AM EST
Tags: Governor Snyder, Anti-Right To Work, DRIC-NITC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Obamacare Health Exchange, Foreign National Job Preference, H-1B Visas, EB-5 Citizenship, Wholesale Gas Tax, Registration Fees, Stem Cell Research, Government Funding, Reinventing Climate Change, Cowardly with Detroits Financial Disaster, Progressives, Been there done that with Granholm, HB 4087, Senate Republicans, From 8 with lifetime benefits to 50, Speaker Bolger (all tags)

It appears the Rick Nerdholm push-back in the Senate is finally start to happen. Senator Jack Brandenburg-R has introduced SB 906 that if passed, will place the State Income Tax rollback again on its proper course.

Thanks to Sens. David Robertson, James Marleau, David Hildenbrand, Howard Walker, Patrick Colbeck, Michael Kowall, Michael Green, Rick Jones, Joseph Hune, Tory Rocca, Tupac Hunter for cosponsoring.

Leader Richardville, all eyes are watching you.

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Amazing Jase How Sweet This Sounds

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Tue Jan 24, 2012 at 01:32:15 PM EST
Tags: Governor Snyder, Anti-Right To Work, DRIC-NITC, Light Rail boondoggles, Massive Federal debt is not a factor, Obamacare Health Exchange, Obamacare suit in jeopardy, Foreign National Job Preference, H-1B Visas, EB-5 Citizenship, Wholesale Gas Tax, Registration Fees, Stem Cell Research, Government Funding, Reinventing Climate Change, Cowardly with Detroits Financial Disaster, Progressives, Been there done that with Granholm, HB 4087, Senate Republicans, From 8 with lifetime benefits to 50, Speaker Bolger, HB 5014 Stopped in its tracks (all tags)

via detnews.com

State House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, said Friday that the House wants to wait until after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on President Barack Obama's federal health reforms to decide its next steps on the exchange.
"The governor and I are not in agreement on this issue," he said. "The rights of our citizens to control their own health care is more important than an IT (information technology) deadline."
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is supporting the legal effort to get the federal reforms declared unconstitutional.
State Rep. Chuck Moss, R-Birmingham, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, also said the GOP caucus doesn't want to act unless it has to.
"We don't like Obamacare; we don't like national health care. We don't think it's good for the country; we don't think it's good for Michigan," Moss said. "We don't want to be early adopters and go down that road if we don't have to."

Could we be witnessing Speaker Bolger growing into a leader within the Republican Party?

Time will tell...

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A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

Lansing: Senate Republicans Hose House Reps.

By Corinthian Scales, Section News
Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2011 at 09:49:30 AM EST
Tags: HB 4087, Senate Republicans, From 8 with lifetime benefits to 50 (all tags)

Nice job ramming this one through, Richardville.

This is why the public has a low opinion of Michigan's lawmakers: They may end their deluxe retiree health care benefits, but only after making some 42 additional lawmakers eligible.
State senators voted Wednesday to cut off the benefit for those lawmakers who haven't served at least six years by Jan. 1, 2013. By changing the bill from one that would have ended vesting on Jan. 1, 2007, they would extend the benefit to 42 additional lawmakers (and their eligible dependents).

Rest here

I'm forced to side with Senator Coleman Youngs' lone NO vote? Ain't that just a b!tch?

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