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Tag: Vickie Barnett

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By Crippy, Section News
Posted on Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 12:03:10 AM EST
Tags: Vickie Barnett, Kyle Dubuc, Michigan budget (all tags)

The state of the state does not look good and it appears Michigan lawmakers are going to make things much worse.

I received an email update on the Michigan budget proceedings from my representative Vicki Barnett. In the update she said that she would vote against any budget cuts for public schools.

I sent her an email asking what budget cuts she would support. In response, I received an message from her Legislative Director Kyle DuBuc. Dubuc responded thus:

This latest round of reforms follows many years of reductions in the cost and size of state government. Over the last six years the state's general fund has been reduced from $11 billion to under $7 billion (a 50% reduction when adjusted for inflation); and over the last 10 years the size of the state's workforce has been reduced by 20% with no decrease in workload or requests for services. This all has taken place while the state income tax rate decreased steadily from 6.3% in 1983 down to 3.9% in 2005, where it remained until 2007 (when it returned to 4.35%). Also in that time period several significant tax cuts were passed at the federal level, and yet, as you pointed out, Michigan's economy has still experienced substantial difficulties.

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