In the "Yesterday you were really stupid, today you're just stupid" department, we have an update on the Michigan state legislature and their foray into a ridiculously proposed and implemented 6% service tax. While we won't go into what services were affected by the tax, you can go here to see the damage.
At any rate, the state legislature and the governor actually took a few minutes from their finger pointing and media posturing to repeal this great idea, replacing it with a surcharge on the state's main business tax. That ought to encourage existing businesses to stay and potential business tenants to just turn around in Toledo and head back south, but that is for another post. Throughout all of this crap, there wasn't really a lot of discussion about managing money responsibly, so I am betting that we can expect some more exciting fireworks about this time next year when they have blown through all of that great windfall of additional tax revenue. It's just what we have come to expect from Michigan state government these days.
While we still think that the Michigan state legislature is about half a step above a retarded chicken in intelligence, let's give them a microscopic bit of credit for figuring out that this service tax idea was extremely stupid and not a well thought out proposal, and repealing this errant bit of legislation. True, they could have done a lot more in terms of saying, "hey, why don't we manage our money better and actually stick to a realistic budget?", but it's government, right? I mean, we do get what we vote for, yes?
Let's try and do better next time, eh?
Here is the follow-up to this whole debacle in The Detroit Free Press - "Duh..."
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