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WARNING: Dems attempting another new tax hike -- T-minus 5 Days until Government Shutdown
By Nick, Section News
Posted on Fri Oct 26, 2007 at 07:43:48 AM EST
No, you didn't misread the headline. The Democrats in Lansing apparently aren't satisfied with a nearly $1.4 BILLION tax hike and are moving to raise taxes again and to bury them in the "cuts" portion of the 10/1/07 budget agreement.
You'll remember that the Dems agreed to make a few cuts before November 1st. Of course, they haven't. And now word comes that they'd very much like to avoid the cuts when at all possible. According to the Detroit News:
Sources familiar with closed-door negotiations reported advances Thursday, but no final deal on the outstanding sticking points, including privatizing foster care, slicing money from disease prevention programs and raising hunting and fishing license fees.
The governor's office, the Democratic state House and the Republican Senate must agree to an additional $430 million in cuts to balance the state's books and avoid another partial shutdown of government services.
This at the same time that the Governor rejects calls from Congressman Pete Hoekstra to reexamine hundreds of thousands of dollars of new state spending on a turtle fence.
More taxes so that we can buy fences for turtles. Oh, and to pay for special gifts to the city of Detroit. Items like:
$12 million for the Detroit Zoo, $10 million for the Detroit Institute of Arts and $1.9 million for the Detroit Historical Museum.
And on top of it all, we're now only 5 days away from a government shutdown. The second in a month.
Wow all that money for Detroit who would have guessed. I wish those Dems would have as much enthusiasm for a fence to secure our borders
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Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:34 am |
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I wish the Dems would have that much enthusiasm for Flint. They should, since this area is dominated by them.
But then no one really expected 1/4 of the imaginary deficit to actually be eliminated through spending cuts, did they? |
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Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:00 pm |
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last time here
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all you gotta do is call johnny engler and ask him to have his
friends return the money they swindled from the state before he
got in his oldsmobile (jet copter) and rode out of lansing!!  |
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Fri Oct 26, 2007 3:22 pm |
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twotap
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LT here englers been gone for 5 years try to focus on the Canadian import who now has the ball.  |
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:21 am |
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FlintConservative
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quote:
last time here schreef:
all you gotta do is call johnny engler and ask him to have his
friends return the money they swindled from the state before he
got in his oldsmobile (jet copter) and rode out of lansing!!
I say, again, PROVE IT.
As of 9/30/02, the State of Michigan General Fund
Fund Balance was $1,777,079,000 and the
"Counter-Cyclical Budget and Economic
Stabilization Fund" (more commonly known
as our "rainy day" fund was $145,150,000
for a total (unrestricted) Fund Balance of $1,922,229,000.
As of 9/30/06, the State of Michigan General Fund
Fund Balance was $1,069,240,000 and the "rainy
day" fund was $2,017,000 for a total of
$1,071,257,000, a DECREASE of almost
$851 million or 44.27%.
In other words, during Granholm's first four
years, she spent $851 million more than
she took in.
You can find this data at:
http://www.michigan.gov/budget/0,1607,7-157-13406_13419---,00.html
Speaking of stealing...
"As the clocks ticks toward the deadline to avert a shutdown of state services, our chief investigative reporter Steve Wilson has been looking into a sweetheart deal that will cost Michigan millions.
It’s the story of a new state police headquarters that the state will lease from a friend and supporter of the Governor for nearly three times what it would cost to build…even though many say a new building isn’t even necessary now."
http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=84AA2E42-5F44-4458-832E-FFD2116E8CAA&gsa=true |
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:27 am |
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last time here
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hell, the damage engler did will take decades to fix!!!!
damn greedy conservatives..but they love their donuts!!
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:12 pm |
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Dave Starr
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I used to care, but I take a pill for that now.
Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:38 pm |
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