Michigan legislature demonstrates just how stupid politicians can be when they really try

Well, just when you think you have seen everything from the State of Michigan and it's band of fools who call themselves "political leaders", well prepare for 12:01AM on Saturday, December 1, 2007. For it is then that the citizens of Michigan are going to see a 6% service tax go into effect that taxes the following services in the State of Michigan -

•  Administrative and management consulting

•  Airline ticket services

•  Copying services

•  Carpet and upholstery cleaning

•  Courier services

•  Downhill skiing

•  Grocery and restaurant delivery

•  Interior, graphic, fashion and industrial design

•  Letter or résumé writing

•  Stenography and transcription services

•  Investigation and detective services

•  Limo services

•  Security and patrol services

•  Mailbox rental

•  Money delivery

•  Investment advice and financial planning

•  Janitorial and other cleaning services

•  Landscape care and design

•  Storage units

•  Contracted office administrative services

•  Manicures and pedicures

•  Facials and make-up application

•  Body piercing and tattoos

•  Hair replacement and weaving

•  Weight loss services

•  Massages, tanning or steam rooms

•  Astrology, palm reading, numerology and fortune-telling

•  House sitting

•  Dating and social escort services

•  Baby shoe bronzing

•  Bail bondsmen

•  Genealogical investigations

•  Personal fitness training and shopping

•  Wedding chapel and planners

•  Singing telegrams

•  Shoeshines

•  Burglar, security and fire alarm installations

•  Tour operators

•  Charter fishing and dinner cruises

•  Hot air balloon, glider and helicopter rides

•  Travel arrangement and reservation services

•  Merchandise warehousing

Now, I know what you're thinking - "the government throws new taxes at us every year, why is this any different?" This is different because of two things - one, it was dumped on the shoulders of Michigan taxpayers to make up for the fiscal irresponsibility of the legislature and the governor; two, preparing for this tax and implementing it into a business like a hair and nail salon or landscaping is going to be a nightmare for the owners of these businesses.

The Michigan legislature has been working to find alternate ways to raise the same amount of money that this new service tax would bring into Michigan's coiffures so that they could then repeal the service tax, but to date, they have not been able to develop an alternate plan.

Surprising? Hardly, these clowns are the only group in the nation who can develop an ill-advised tax, decide that it's stupid only after almost everyone in the state tells them it is, and then backpedal into a desperate search for an alternative funding measure in the eleventh hour so that the citizens don't march on the capitol in Lansing and torch the place.

As is the usual mode of operations in Michigan, Democrats are blaming Republicans and Republicans are blaming Democrats, but at the end of the day both parties and their half-assed representatives have been worthless with regard to this and many other budget debacles that have the state in it's current listing towards complete capsize.

The Detroit Free Press has all of the details here, but we though it'd be fun to point this one out just so you can see how bad things can really get when politicians are left unsupervised.

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