You are never going to be past-due by six figures.  Neither am I.  Shoot, neither is the Governor, and she knows this.  By setting the bar so remarkably high she's targeting one group and one group only... not your average, run-of-the-mill tax cheat, the bums who deserve to have a spotlight shone right smack in their eyes, but rich people.  Period.

I know, I know, nobody likes rich people and there aren't that many of them so I guess that means we can pick on them all we want, right?  Well, sure.  If you want to be a jerk and a lousy human being.  And if you want to scare job makers out of Michigan with one more onerous threat.

If the Governor was serious about cutting down on tax delinquency and sorting out the books she'd set her standard much higher by casting a wider net.  But she isn't fishing for sustenance.  The woman is Ahab, hunting her great white whale. Nothing but Moby Dick is going to do.

Besides, if she hunts even marginally smaller (but still GIANT) fish she'd start catching the kind of folks she's always given an intentional pass in the past.  Folks like failed Democratic state Representative candidate Bernard Jocuns, for instance. According to the Michigan Department of Treasury and the IRS, the Democrat owed nearly $30,000 in back taxes last year, even while he was running for the House.

Oh, and folks like... well... herself.  It was a year ago next week that Lansing TV WILX discovered that Granholm herself had been ignoring a nearly $20,000 tax lien that dated all the way back to 2003.  

Sure enough, as soon as the general public found out that she and John Cherry weren't paying their taxes, they settled up and quick.  Exactly the sort of result they claim they're shooting for with this new public-shame plan... other than the part where Democrats in Lansing have to live by the same standards as the rest of us.