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Today the Lansing State Journal compares the Democratic and Senate Republican plans to replace the Single Business Tax, immediately raising one question:
What in the heck are Senate Republicans thinking?
More LSJ:
This massive tax cut is one of two competing plans now before the Legislature. The Democratically controlled Michigan House adopted its own tax rewrite, a plan that's expected to be revenue neutral.
But Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, said last week it's not as important for a new tax to be revenue neutral as it is to be pro-growth.
State Senator Mike Bishop (R-Tanning Salon) and his Senate Obstructionist Caucus--inexperience, no prior plannning, and no answers for the CAT-5 fiscal crisis facing the State of Michigan. Again, back to the LSJ:
Such statements again remind that Bishop, thanks to legislative term limits, is still in his first year as leader of the Michigan Senate. Inexperience has to be playing a role in how this debate is going so far off course.
Do Bishop and the other Senate Republicans not remember the bitter stalemate over the existing 2007 budget? The Legislature and Gov. Jennifer Granholm have cut hundreds of millions of dollars in spending; and Michigan schools and health providers are on the brink of even further cuts. And all these problems are occurring with a fully operational SBT in place.
Do Bishop and the Republicans want to go into the 2008 budget debate with a $600 million hole in an SBT replacement? Who's behind this thinking?
Q: Who's behind this thinking?
A:
Q: What in the heck are Senate Republicans thinking?
A: You're doing a heckuva job, Mikey!
That completes this installment of simple answers to simple questions.
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