Reply #1: I don't like it, personally. [View All]

[knitter4democracy]

I don't mind paying my taxes, as they're the dues we pay to be citizens, but this one bugs me. I think it comes from the fact that the Republicans keep lowering taxes and then realize that they don't have enough in the bank to pay for all the corporate welfare and pork they want. That's when they start looking for old tax laws on the books to say that they're merely enforcing the law, not raising taxes or getting a new tax out there.

How can they possibly enforce it? How can they even begin to know how much will come in? This may be about Michigan getting its own back and at least keeping some money in the state, but I think it's more about how our state government needs money badly but can't raise taxes.