And if there's one thing we've learned the Granholm-Cherry administration simply will not abide in this state, its new jobs.

The Detroit News notes that other problems abound, as well:

The move to state tax brackets "opens up the income tax to class warfare politics and destructive battles about who is rich and who is not," said Patrick Anderson, an economist and former deputy state budget director.

Anderson added that the income tax also can be a hidden levy on business because a firm's profits often are taxed as personal income.

"Hundreds of millions are collected (in income tax) from people who are listed as shareholders," Anderson said. His business tax burden report indicates that personal income tax on business income in 2006 in Michigan amounted to $777 million.

A graduated income tax penalizes success.  The more you make the more you owe.  The better you perform and the more money you work to take in for your family the more Lansing will come calling.  It literally discourages hard work.  Why knock yourself out to get ahead when the politicians in Lansing are ready to slap you into a newer, higher tax bracket?

Course, if Lansing liberals have anything to say about it, the next time you try to drown that or any other sorrow you'll be sending more cash their direction, too.

The Grand Rapids Press reports that Capitol area Lefties are now proposing a $100 million tax hike on beer.  The local paper caught up with one particular Grand Rapids resident who, when asked for a comment, didn't mince any words:

As he scanned the cooler at a Grand Rapids store for a six pack, Jake Brenner had a three-word reaction to a proposed tax (increase) on beer.

"That would suck," said Brenner, 27, of Grand Rapids, shopping at Martha's Vineyard, 200 Union Ave. NE.

Indeed it would, Jake.  Indeed it would.

But that's our take.  What's yours?