Tag Archives: tax policy

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, income tax, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, progressive taxation, public education, revolution, Rick Snyder, tax credits, tax the rich, trickle down economics, we need a revolution | 20 Comments

White people, seeing Emergency Managers in their future, begin to demand change

By Mark | May 21, 2012

The Detroit Free Press, in an editorial yesterday, suggested that maybe, now that predominantly white cities, like Allen Park, are beginning to stagger toward financial collapse, and state takeover, our elected officials in Lansing might be willing to look at the underlying structural issues which are pushing our communities, one after the other, toward catastrophic [...]

Posted in Economics, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Allen Park, Andy Dillon, Benton Harbor, budget deficit, deficit, Deficit Elimination Plan, Ecorse, Emergency Financial Manager Act, Emergency Financial Manger, Flint, Headlee Amendment, Paul Tait, Pontiac, Proposal A, race, Rick Snyder, SEMCOG | 111 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 [...]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Ideas, Politics, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged anti-university, class warfare, crazy ideas that just might work, Earned Income Tax Credit, EITC, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager Act, higher education, income disparity, income tax, Kickstarter, local income tax, Michael Stampfler, Michigan, Michigan Republicans, progressive taxation, public education, revolution, tax credits, tax the rich, we need a revolution | 58 Comments

Michigan continues to dismantle valuable community infrastructure, shift tax burden to working class, in order to pay for tax breaks for business owners

By Mark | February 13, 2012

As you may have read on Eclectablog a few days ago, Joseph Harris, the Emergency Financial Manager installed by the Governor’s office to oversee the dismantling/privatization of Benton Harbor, recently put the City’s small, in-house radio station up for sale on Ebay. Well, Rachel Maddow just picked up on the story. Here’s her report. Visit [...]

Posted in Media, Michigan, Politics | Also tagged Benton Harbor, community assets, Earned Income Tax Credit, Ebay, Eclectablog, Emergency Financial Manager, Emergency Financial Manager’s Act, Homestead Property Tax Credit, Joseph Harris, Michigan Business Tax, pensions, privatization, Rick Snyder, shifting the tax burden to the working class, Tax Time Bomb, taxing the poor, threats to Democracy, WBHC | 28 Comments

Romney’s empathy deficit

By Mark | February 2, 2012

Mitt Romney made headlines today, in the wake of his victory in the Florida Republican primary, when he said, “I’m not concerned about the very poor.” As you might expect, it’s getting a great deal of play across various social media channels, where the “Romney’s an entitled son-of-a-bitch who doesn’t have the slightest interest in [...]