What's the deal with Rep. Olumba's decision?

See..

Recent Belle Isle deal fall threw, he must be one of those crazies that show up at the city council meeting, least that is by first take.

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by: Warhawkgundam @ Thu Feb 21, 2013 at 00:19:08 AM UTC

Recall of Mayor Bing.

He did lead an effort to recall Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, but I don't see that he connection to the Belle Isle management question to the House Democratic Caucus?

Great Lakes, Great Times.

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by: Michael McGuinness @ Thu Feb 21, 2013 at 13:17:05 PM UTC

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Those

people are not crazies.

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by: MIChange @ Thu Feb 21, 2013 at 17:29:41 PM UTC

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so the?

So the prefer outcome was belle isle being sold off when the emf comes into town?

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by: Warhawkgundam @ Thu Feb 21, 2013 at 18:37:05 PM UTC

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FYI … For what it is worth ...

 ... From: State Rep. John Olumba, February 27, 2013, "Night Shift Detroit"  First Shift with Tony Truipiano

"... I'm looking at 700,000 people disenfranchised from Tax Policy.  Now Tax Policy, by the way, is THE most important committee in Lansing besides Appropriations and guess what:

The City of Detroit is the most heavily taxed municipality in the state, in the United States.  

We have maxed out of every bond.  We can't issue any more bonds.  That's why they keep coming up with these new authorities.  If you notice, all last year they were moving legislation to create new authorities, that's so we can get more bonding capacity so that they can continue to load debt onto the people of the City of Detroit.  We are overtaxed.

They came up with study was the other day that said that people are paying property taxes that are 18 times higher than what they should be.

We got mileages up the wha-zoo.  And the point is, if we are paying that much money in taxes, than anybody in the state, there are no Detroiters on Tax Policy, that's probably why."  

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

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by: CFCLFM @ Mon Mar 11, 2013 at 19:55:53 PM UTC

Thank you.

I saw you relay that in another comment thread, as well. It was a powerful statement that I hadn't seen from him before, so I very much appreciate you sharing more context regarding his decision.

Is there any resource that you know of off-hand that would offer a breakdown of the various taxes that exist upon the city residents, employers, employees?  

Aren't some of them self-determined and self-imposed (which certainly doesn't take into immediate account as to what conditions led to the perceived need for their imposition)?

Great Lakes, Great Times.

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by: Michael McGuinness @ Thu Mar 14, 2013 at 15:26:35 PM UTC

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