Tuesday, November 24, 2009

How To Turn Around Michigan: Tax Hikes And Welfare

As further proof that insanity has no bounds, a Michigan Democratic candidate for governor calls for tax hikes and more welfare. http://www.freep.com/article/20091124/N ... -tax-hikes

Thoroughly disgusted minds are reading State lawmaker calls for tax hikes.

A Washtenaw County legislator and Democratic candidate for governor unveiled her plan to turnaround Michigan today – a $6.5 billion a year tax hike.

State Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith said substantial hikes in Michigan’s business, sales and income taxes are needed to make investments in education and welfare programs that will restore the state to prosperity.

Smith, a veteran lawmaker who plans to run for governor in 2010, called for hikes of:

• $3 billion in mostly business tax increases by closing so-called loopholes. The new revenue would allow the state to eliminate a “business growth stranglingâ€