As it stands... This Snyder Budget is bigger than Granholms' last budget.

It's as if the new Governor's Office in Lansing has The Oval Office, Speaker Blinky and Dingy Harry ghostwriting for them.

I find it very interesting to hear so called "conservatives" whine that they may actually have to share in the shared sacrifices required to fix this state.  The budget deficits are real, folks.  Snyder doesn't own a money printing press and he can't run deficits.  No longer can we afford accounting gimmicks to balance the budget.  Real cuts must be made and made in a responsible way.  

I'm not 100% thrilled with Snyder's budget either.  Would I prefer scrapping the entire tax code and trading it in for a consumption tax or a flat tax?  Maybe.  Something truly dramatic might have been preferred.

But from what I can tell, the plan proposed does a lot to help small businesses in Michigan get up off the mat and begin to thrive and, thereby, create more jobs - which creates more taxpayers, which some day may allow us to pay for grandma's subsidized retirement once again.

Until then, we're broke!  That's not just a slogan.  It's very real.  So very real spending cuts are required along with closing tax loopholes.  Making Michigan's tax code flatter and easier with a focus on generating economic activity and growth must be accomplished if we're ever to get out of this mess.  

We elected adults to get us out of this mess.  Now we need to grow up and start acting like adults ourselves.

DCuz

One COULD look at the changes being presented as solving problems brought about by particular demographic..  those ABOUT to retire.  

Ow.. who threw that?

Anyhow..

The elimination of the EIC assistance is an interesting thing. I am not sure about any of you, but there have been times I have considered it to be "magic money" because it can cause some refunds to be larger than the total money paid in for taxes and SS BEFORE.  Seeing as an elimination here confused me, because I always thought of it as a federal thing.

The corporate tax and elimination of the MBT is really a big positive of the plan.  Simplification and elimination of a number of small value add and manufacturing businesses from the burdensome MBT will literally allow more employment.  I know this to be fact, as I saw jobs go away because of its implementation.

BTW, Breitbart is reporting that the bus loads of activists bussed into Madison were funded by Zero's "Organizing For America" group.  And the Democrap legislators headed out of state were found in a luxury resort in Northern Illinois.  Tea party groups are now headed there and to Madison to counter protest.

I am putting on my comfy's and popping pop corn for the show!!!

Of course, what I would expect is something for that money.  It's not just a transfer of wealth thing that bothers me.  It's a transfer of wealth with no accountability, responsibility, or similar sacrifice for those who get a pass on retirement health care benefits and even get state pensions for one state job while getting paid for working in another state job.  I expect a basic philosophical shifting from the way the state presently operates.

But when you get down to it, I have a choice as do hundreds of thousands [millions?] of other retirees.  It's called Florida... or Texas... or any other state that doesn't screw over the fixed and limited incomes of their seniors.

Think Michigan has funding problems now?  Wait until the Baby-Boomers put paper to pencil and conclude that they are better off elsewhere.  Those are seniors who put an awful lot of money into the local economy.

Maybe my home becomes my "summer home" and my residence goes elsewhere.  I like warm winters anyway.