Posted on 02/09/2006 7:21:15 AM PST by .cnI redruM
Sadly, Uncle Ted moved to Texas, so I'm pretty sure a gubernatorial run is no longer in the cards.
Nothing, unless you want to alienate your base and lose elections.
Remember, if you subtract a few counties (i.e. Detroit, Dearborn, Ann Arbor), Michigan is as red a state as you can find. Considering the substantial amount of alleged vote fraud in Detroit and Dearborn (currently under federal investigation), it's entirely possible for the state to go the other way. Union sentiment is also on the way out, and is pretty much a joke west of Jackson.
Our Canadian Trash governor can do just about anything she wants and get re-elected. Why? She panders to Detroit and the unions, who are still powerhouses here. Teachers are the only workers who haven't seen their health care benefits and prescription co-pays go up exponentially. They won't dare strike during the next election because they're the only ones who aren't financially hurting. Their "for the children!" screeches won't earn them a bit of sympathy from laid-off auto workers and retirees who are getting clobbered in the pocketbooks.
When Oakland County sneezes, the rest of the state catches a cold. In this case we've got pneumonia.
On a bright note, Oakland County exec L. Brooks Patterson is looking at a petition drive to finally end the SBT, which taxes all businesses on their profits AND payroll. It automatically puts the state at a disadvantage when it comes to luring business here, and existing companies are leaving because of it. Granholm is, of course, against it, but she's fiddling while the state burns.
A guy like John Engler
Ten years and we're gone (at least for the winter). Northern Michigan in the summer is one beautiful place. And aside from a few places in the north (Traverse City, unfortunately), it is pretty solid red.
Michigan has something called the single business tax, it accounts for about a third of its receipts. It is the same Valued Added Tax that is killing Europe. They will never get rid of it.
Guv Granholm mused how to create an environment that would nurture young entrepreneurs. My reply is the innovators create themselves, just worry if they want to pursue their dreams in your state or below the Mason-Dixon Line. The VAT kills startups and nothing is replacing the auto industry.
Tony Snow was on WLSAM the other morning, he just ripped on Detroit. Said it had the highest taxes of any city in the whole country. Except the favored businesses that are exempted from them. Basically, Tony said good bye and good riddance to the whole state.
Delphi has immediate problems, the UAW is planning to shut it down until it restores benefits, and they're going to make it an election issue. Just like Blanco said she's going to close oil leases in LA until she gets more rebuilding money.
Time to choose up sides RINO America.
The person with the backbone to 1). outlaw Unions in Michigan for 5 years, 2). Stop the "new welfare" ( disability for everything and anything). 3). Effectively counter the Michael Moore eternal victim, fat slob mentality...
I don't think he could be called a RINO, more like treating her nice until she is drawn and quartered in Nov.
There was an editorial in the Wall Street Journal some months ago about Michigan's punitive tax rates. If the legislature doesn't want to slash those rates, whether VAT design or not, then no one anywhere in the country should give a fig about what happens in that state.
Here in the peoples democratic republik of michigan, we enjoy lifetime welfare benefits, high taxes, poor roads, services, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation, along with business regulations that would choke a horse. Welcome to our state, comrade!!!
"If the legislature doesn't want to slash those rates, whether VAT design or not, then no one anywhere in the country should give a fig about what happens in that state."
The legislature passed a bill to cut the single business tax in half, Jenny Grandstand vetoed it.
Good for the legislature. They couldn't override? Sounds like the gov needs to be put out to pasture quickly.
Too bad they built factories and housing on the very best farmland. Dearborn-Inkster (H. Ford's names for white and black respectively worker towns) used to be spectacular Dutch pastured dairy farms.
By the way, State Senator Patterson, (a Republican) also worked overtime to reestablish DTE's Monopoly status. He should be voted out of office with Grandholm.
Every RAT and RINO in the state should be voted out of office.
Michigan didn't used to be a rat state.
How many remember that George Wallace won the state in the general election for POTUS when he ran?
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