Posted on 09/29/2010 6:29:12 AM PDT by MichCapCon
When Michigan government's outsized waistline fails to shrink, there's often very definitive actions and votes that tell the tale. Just two of many recent examples include 2007's billion-plus-dollar tax hikes and politicians too timid to make modest reforms last fall that would have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in K-12 spending.
But it isn't always so clear.
Outside of those "big meals," there are other high-fat morsels that keep the state from adopting a sensible diet. A good place to find these "midnight snacks" is wherever a lawmaker is talking about a "fee" like it is different from a tax. While there are certainly examples of fees being used only for very specific and valid purposes, when any big pot of money is created in Lansing, what is "right" one day has a habit of morphing into "wrong" in a hurry.
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Mike
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