It's time for the creation a statewide "Tax Me More" Fund. Just think of the possibilities.
When I got back in range of Michigan radio stations this morning and caught the diabetes-inducing, sugar-coating that Gov. Snyder and the proponents of this road funding sham were trying to spoon-feed Michigan Taxpayers, several things came to mind.
Take a sip…you’ll enjoy it!!!
(13)Nuh Uh.
(0)Stop the sixteen point seven percent tax increase May 5th.
Higher taxes, and the return of redistribution aided advanced by Republicans in Lansing last night.
A May 5th special election will have poor voters deciding if they will be getting more cheese. The corporate abusers will get their pie, and the rest of us in the middle will get the bill. Pandering welfare gimmicks, corporate cronyism on steroids and a blanket party for the working class. Whats not to love?
(18)Nuh Uh.(2)A great big THANK YOU to a rock solid friend of the constitution and conservatism!
Tom McMillin would have been an outstanding congressman.
Though we have some incredible voices joining the Michigan legislature this upcoming session, we will be losing one that is unique and irreplaceable. Tom McMillin has been a stalwart conservative voice in Lansing, has put his himself out in front to keep taxes low, fight the crony capitalism that seems to be the force majuere of our executive branch, and lead in the DOMA battle. Much of it knowing the battle was lost before it began.
We will miss him as the true representative of appropriate governance, and a fine example of the best this state has to offer.
Thank you Tom.
(26)Nuh Uh.(3)Garlic chips on the cheap. And they taste better than legislative sausage too!
Yeah.. I can get domestic once in a while.
And as we all know, tis the season for Chex mix. And I don’t know about you all out there, but the garlic chips usually used are expensive (usually about $3-4 a bag) and they are too darn thick. With the upcoming additional taxes on gas, we need to make our economies where we can. (Yeah, I threw politics into a recipe – This ain’t Martha Stewart’s page)
So here is a way to make that particular part of the recipe for your mix, that is tasty, flaky, and costs about a buck to make. (it makes a great snack too!) It was surprisingly better tasting for me (seriously, I had my doubts) than the typical chips used for chex mix, and I can see it used as a movie snack, croutons, or whatever.
So lets do this.
(12)Nuh Uh.(1)
“It’s a first step. It’s a big step – don’t get me wrong. In a bipartisan way, the Michigan Senate was ready to say, `We want to fix roads and we’ll take tough votes to do it,”‘ said Senate Majority Leader Randy Richardville, a Monroe Republican.
“What I would say is the House action doesn’t get us there fast enough or far enough. It also creates major consequences to schools and local partners — that I don’t want to see negative things happen to them,” said Michigan Governor Rick Snyder.
And these guys are “republicans”?
So, who’s thirsty?
{Not to fear, more below the fold}
(15)Nuh Uh.(4)Big Box retailers have found foot soldiers willing to do bidding in HUGE rent seek.
Heads up!
Word on the street is that HB 4202 and HB 4203 are on the schedule for second reading today in the Michigan House of Representatives. That means it would be up for FINAL PASSAGE tomorrow. You can read below all the details about the bills. Bottom line, if they are enacted, you will be paying MORE taxes.
Please take a moment and contact your representative today. Let your opinion be known! These phone calls and emails do matter. They do affect how a representative votes.
Find your representative’s contact information here.
We will keep you posted of the progress (or lack therof) of these bills tomorrow.
House Bills 4202 (Kowall-R), and 4203 (VerHeulen-R), will impose new taxes on consumers in Michigan and will further burden online sellers, especially the mom and pop shops that operate out of a small store front office or the business owners home. They will be subjected by government to an abundance of new compliance requirements. It will stifle competition as many smaller competitors to the big guys (like Amazon) will likely be forced to downsize or worse yet, go out of business.
(21)Nuh Uh.(6)Dovetailing on the good news from Trucker Randy yesterday, according to today’s Detroit News, Speaker Bolger has declared that BOTH HB-5959 (Rep. Foster) and HB-5804 (Rep. Singh) to be dead this year.
***Side note to Chad Livengood: Both bills were written to create a protected class in Michigan, NOT prohibit discrimination. I will be more than happy to cite numerous examples in Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon ,Texas and New York (just for starters) to prove you otherwise. I shouldn’t have to remind you that you are a reporter, not an editorial page writer.***
{Still, I’ve got more after the fold}
(12)Nuh Uh.(1)Perhaps we take a moment and reflect on a little history of Michigan and how things happen?
Lets talk about Julea Ward.
Who is she? And why should she be the topic of the day? Without reading any further, how many of Right Michigan’s regular readers recall her name? Take your time, but don’t forget to act when you are through here, OK?
In April of 2009, the Blog Prof posted something that was out of the ballpark nuts on the pages of RightMichigan.com. Not “nuts” because HE was wrong, but rather from being the telltale sign of things to come. One of our publicly funded Universities threatened to END Miss Ward’s career, unless she submit to a regimen of homophilia. As the prof’s prop of choice asked then, “What the hell is going on out here!”
(22)Nuh Uh.(0)We have been so incredibly blessed as a nation. How could we not offer our thanks to the Lord?
We give thanks each year as tradition dictates.
As we are today, our forefathers were both good and evil. They were productive and prosperous, or lazy and in despair. Human nature leads us on many paths, and we often forget where that path started. Sometimes we are purposefully confused so that we do not remember.
With that in mind. Enjoy the following stories of Thanksgiving, each from a different perspective.
“In his History of Plymouth Plantation, the governor of the colony, William Bradford, reported that the colonists went hungry for years because they refused to work in the field. They preferred instead to steal food. He says the colony was riddled with “corruption,” and with “confusion and discontent.” The crops were small because “much was stolen both by night and day, before it became scarce eatable.” “
And in a similar vein
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