Because… That Guy.
MI voters should reject any tax increase proposal that doesn't first eliminate film subsidies and corporate welfare. I'm voting no on May 5.
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) April 23, 2015
Corporate welfare, he says? Just remember, you endorsed Lt. Turd, pal.
(24)Nuh Uh.
(0)It appears not all are impressed with Single Cent Snyder and his incompetent toad on their Coach of Corruption tour, which kicked off today with a stop at Mark Hackel’s boondoggle bridge.
Perhaps, a short bus would be more appropriate for the SRY Team?
(33)Nuh Uh.(0)Prop 1 is for roads???...Hardly...
Detroit’s ‘Core’ a ‘Common’ problem…
Being a ‘newbie’ senior citizen, I’ll have to rely on the ‘old school’ math, but…let’s at least try to sum this up, shall we???
We don’t have to go back too far, let’s just start with the Guv’s 2012 budget, and it’s expansion since then… http://ballotpedia.org/Michigan_state_budget_%282011-2012%29#Deal_negotiated
$47 billion for 2012, and now asking $53 billion…and an estimated $2 billion more each year in tax increases proposed in Prop 1…Just where is all this money going???…Let’s follow some (most) of it…I have…
Starting with the Detroit bankruptcy bailout, $195 million, our State tax money…We’ll try (try, that is) to keep a running total…Stay with me here, the ‘River” gets murky in some spots…http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/detroit-bankruptcy/2014/11/08/detroit-bankruptcy-timeline/18680129/…Speaking of rivers, let’s cross this one… http://blogs.windsorstar.com/news/snyder-canadian-leaders-urge-washington-to-fund-dric-customs-plaza. The $550 million Canada has promised for the bridge construction is a loan, to be repaid from tolls, but that’s another story entirely…So Detroit has $195 million in State money to get itself out of Court…
(17)Nuh Uh.(0)
Snyder confronts bailout question: "I don't view it as a bailout when it's really being done in getting something stable and working well."
— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) April 30, 2015
Yep. Another $720,000,000.00 flushed down the drain on the Progressive’s Utopia, City of Detoilet.
(20)Nuh Uh.(0)Because the special interest root cause of Proposal 1 makes this timely.
Wood stoves? Close your school? This is our state government in action, folks. Lansing’s Republican majority dare touch the insurance industry’s $20B slush fund? Nyet.
Think this kind of government endorsed behavior has no effect on you?
Just wait until Lansing starts working on Snyder, Bloomberg, and Obama’s energy policy in Michigan.
Well informed RightMi.com readers cannot say they were not warned here, here, here, and here.
(26)Nuh Uh.(0)SafeRoadsYes! Morphing Into A Very Expensive White Elephant - Big New Money Going Down the Drain!
Another day, another $ 105,000 delivered to SafeRoadsYes! Here are the latest contributions made to SafeRoadsYes! on 28 April and posted by the Michigan Secretary of State today:
The motives of three late contributors are pretty obvious. PVS-Nolwood is a chemical company in Detroit specializing in acids and their disposal. As [a very profitable] part of this business, they unload neutralized acid byproducts on wastewater treatment plants as clarifiers. Those wastewater treatment plants just happen to be owned by various units of government which, in turn, use their water billings to rape the public at large. PVS-Nolwood have a long history of sucking up to Michigan’s power elites to further their very lucrative business interests.
(21)Nuh Uh.(0)Awkwardness in the House: @CindyGamrat is withdrawing each of her amendments, one-by-one. There are 23 on a list I saw. Twenty-three.
— Chad Livengood (@ChadLivengood) April 28, 2015
This better have something to do with Plan “B”.
‘Nuff said!
(5)Nuh Uh.(1)You know, if one really needed a better reason for a part time legislature in Michigan, all one would need to do is shine light for the pedestrian observer (that’s you, taxpayer) as to what our elected politicians do once all the campaign talk is over, and they settle into their sworn Oath’s of office.
What are we talking about? Let’s take one particular individual to use as example of what idiocracy occurs, which is innocuous in appearance but, when they all use the same topical claptrap while shirking actual duties such as, oh say, allowing roads to deteriorate and crying poor?
Well, this is the government we get in Lansing.
(16)Nuh Uh.(0)Why would we need to tax ourselves more at the pump or otherwise???
Don’t even start with me on government honeypots.
There’s a problem with those big ol cash reserves set up for specific issue. They WILL get raided for something else someday. Recall the tobacco settlement which has been re-purposed at least a couple of times since the award. Remember the BCBS Three and a half $Billion of ratepayer/Taxpayer (by reason of contract with state) money that has disappeared.
Peter Lucido says not necessary. While most lawmakers are cowering in fear lest someone learn how they stand, he is as clear as glass on the issue. In this case, its a $20,000,000,000.00 pile of dough that earns nearly a billion a year? Given the planned obsolescence of such a fund in the wake of ‘insurance reform,’ why on earth would we NOT consider its use for paying down current and immediate needs.
$20 billion? holy guacamole.
Oh and someone stand watch over Rick’s ‘stash’ ok?
(20)Nuh Uh.(0)
