Tag Archives: income tax

Middle class Michiganders to pay considerably more in taxes despite the anti-tax rhetoric of Lansing Republicans

By Mark | February 19, 2013

Reading an article in the Detroit Free Press this evening about how taxes are going up precipitously on working class Michiganders, I’m reminded of something that I wrote about a year ago for this site. Here’s how my post began. Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax [...]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Observations, Politics | Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ed Asner California Association of Teachers, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, higher education, income disparity, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, progressive taxation, public education, revolution, Rick Snyder, tax credits, tax policy, tax the rich, trickle down economics, we need a revolution | 20 Comments

Romney’s Freeloading 47

By Mark | September 18, 2012

Surreptitiously recorded video of Mitt Romney addressing wealthy supporters at the Boca Raton home of controversial private equity manager Marc Leder, as most of you probably know by now, was made public yesterday afternoon by David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones magazine. Recorded on May 17, the video shows the ruggedly handsome [...]

Posted in Observations, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 47%, big government, class warfare, Earned Income Tax Credit, entitlements, freeloaders, Freeloading 47, health care, Marc Leder, Muslim rage, personal responsibility, Presidential politics, racism, Romney, scapegoats, taxes, victimhood, welfare | 34 Comments

Romney’s proposed tax cuts don’t add up… but, if you say that, you’re probably just a liar

By Mark | September 16, 2012

Mitt Romney, knowing full well that the President is going to challenge him on his “facts” in their first face-to-face debate, which is scheduled to take place in three weeks, is going on the offensive, attempting to claim the mantle of truth-teller. In an interview a few days ago with George Stephanopoulos, Romney said that [...]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Albert R. Hunt, capital gains, charitable contributions, estate tax, George Stephanopoulos, gotcha journalism, liars, lying, Martin Feldstein, Michael Graetz, mortgage deduction, Obama, Romney, tax cuts, tax loopholes, Tax Policy Center, taxes, the sad state of journalism | 15 Comments

It’s not the vote that bothers me, it’s the way the Ypsilanti income tax campaign was waged

By Mark | May 8, 2012

The more things change, the more they stay the same… In thinking about what I’d write about today’s vote on the City income tax, I started digging through the MarkMaynard.com archives, and found this piece that I’d posted November 2, 2007, when our community last considered the passage of an income tax. While much has [...]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged Brian Robb, Pete Murdock, Steve Pierce, Stop City Income Tax, YpsiVotes | 84 Comments

How do you convey to people the seriousness of what’s happening to Michigan’s working class?

By Mark | April 23, 2012

Why is it that we allow the Republicans to refer to themselves as the anti-tax party, when they keep demonstrating that they clearly aren’t? Sure, they’re all for the cutting of business taxes, inheritance taxes, and other taxes that would threaten to decrease the wealth of their party’s high-net-worth donors, but, invariably, those shifts in [...]