Interesting to note that the moneybag behind Common Core, and also employes this Barb Byrum orchestrated circus sideshow, has now taken “freedom” to the propaganda level of others having to “get their mind right” or, be crushed under a well-heeled wood shoe.
Rent Seeking
Cronyism, Democrats, Elections, Rent Seeking
Debbie Dingell Releases First Campaign Video
by Corinthian Scales • • 1 Comment
April Fools! Nevertheless, it’s a timeless fun little reminder about Gun Banning Debbie.
H/t Me
Conservative News, Cronyism, Democrats, Elections, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking, Republicans
“Take a Vote, Not a Vacation”
by Corinthian Scales • • 3 Comments
Remember the last time you heard those infamous words blasted in the Mitten? I do. We all ended up with Snydercaid Expansion. How did that work out? Well, now we have a Speaker of the House walking back on his $25 fee per insured vehicle he brazenly sneaked in to fund Snydercaid Expansion that he and SML Richardville, knew damned well was unfunded within a House proposal of allegedly lowering vehicle insurance rates, which coincidentally, the insurance industry is lobbying for just as they did with “no-fault” decades prior because… it would keep rates low.
OK, so? Where is this post going, CS?
Elections, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking, Republicans
Yep, it’s an Election Year
by Corinthian Scales • • 5 Comments
The tax hiking surrender monkey majority in Lansing, led by none other than a duplicitous twit from Livonia, lets the retaliation cat out of the bag.
Unionized police and firefighters could again receive retroactive pay raises through new contracts under legislation being considered in the state House that would exempt them from a 2011 law.
The Legislature three years ago outlawed retroactive pay raises for unionized local government workers for time periods when they were working under an expired contract.
But state Rep. John Walsh, R-Livonia, said the law was meant to be aimed only at public school employees and was not intended to cover police and firefighters, whose unions are governed by a different collective bargaining law.
Because those within the union of First Responders are Heroes™ propaganda, oh, say like this example here, have way more enforcement value to a politician than those within the MEA?
Cronyism, Michigan, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking
The Rural Michigan Squeeze
by Jason • • 0 Comments
It took a little time for it to sink in, but Michigan’s legislature may have made the same mistake with ATT, that was made with BCBS.
Consider the decades of [government enforced] monopoly protections and the ability to hang their lines exclusively prior to deregulation. A compact that allowed ATT to profit heavily through its stand alone status, was then modified to ATT’s desires during the breakup of the bell system in 1974. Also consider the effects on small rural operators that rely on ATT for service access.
Conservative News, Democrats, Detroit, Rent Seeking, Republicans
Flushing Another $2M Down the Utopians’ Detoilet
by Corinthian Scales • • 2 Comments
I’m not even bothering to comment on Snyder’s non-bailout bailout anymore so, just click HERE.
Conservative News, Cronyism, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking, Republicans, Sports
unPure Penske
by Corinthian Scales • • 4 Comments
Super crony capitalist powers activate!
Conservative News, Elections, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking, Republicans
The Arlen Specter Model for Hiking our Fuel Tax and Registration Fees
by Corinthian Scales • • 1 Comment
Folks, let’s begin by refreshing our memories with example of what a Pennsylvania Republican did for Obamacare by clicking HERE. Got it? Good. Now, let’s refresh our memories with looking at a career of being fed from the taxpayer’s wallet produces with this Lefty fear-mongering creep Bill Rustem, by clicking HERE. Got it? Good.
Now, BOHICA.
Snyder’s strategy director, Bill Rustem, said the state may try to follow a road funding game plan that was recently executed in Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled state government.
In November, lawmakers in the Keystone State boosted annual road funding by $2.3 billion through a gas-tax hike and gradual increase in vehicle license fees, said Bradley Mallory, deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
“The price of doing nothing is higher than the price of not addressing the problem, including delay, detours, safety and including death,” Mallory said. “Doing nothing is not free. It is, in fact, enormously expensive.”
Pennsylvania’s success “gives us hope,” Rustem said, and “gives us a game plan for seeing this achieved sometime this year.”
Ah, the smell of Hopium™ and fear fills the atmosphere in Lansing, as the Obama and Milliken-esque is strong in this one guiding Dear Leader, the Progressive Nerd. Finding $200M of “shared sacrifice” with repealing Prevailing Wage from the union brotherhood to fix our roads?
Michigan, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking
Shirkey: New Report Shows Electricity Competition Works
by Jason • • 2 Comments
Illinois Study Clarifies Free Markets Provide Better Value
Mike Shirkey says a new report shows electric monopolies cost families and job providers billions, and cripples local economies.
We knew that.
Apparently an Illinois study offers overwhelming Support for reforms Similar to Michigan House Bill 5184. State Rep. Mike Shirkey (R-Clarklake) highlighted the report today showing a dramatic $37 billion in consumer savings in nearby Illinois since that state replaced its monopoly-style electric system with competition and customer choice. The report cites an $18 billion in savings for residential customers and $19 billion for companies and job providers. Chicken feed. Yes?
Conservative News, Cronyism, Michigan, Michigan Politics, Rent Seeking
Baker Farm Still Standing
by Jason • • 1 Comment
Michigan farm family has had to endure an out of control bureaucratic nightmare
Mark Baker being interviewed a couple of days ago by the Alex Jones folks.
There is a great point made towards the end of the Mark Baker interview here. The Baker family has had to endure an incredible pressure brought on by an out of control Lansing bureaucracy. While other farmers have folded, allowing the state to destroy their property, the Bakers have remained firmly resolved that they are protected by the US Constitution.
They are correct. (Interview/segment starts at about 14:40)
We applaud and pray for the Bakers as they courageously face an ever increasing Statist government.