2008 Senate Joint Resolution L (Require supermajority for any service tax ) (Senate Roll Call 263)
Failed in the Senate (25 to 12) on April 24, 2008, to place before voters in the next general election a Constitutional amendment to require that would prohibit the legislature from expanding the sales tax to services, or creating a new services tax like the one passed and repealed a month later in 2007, unless a two-thirds supermajority in the House and Senate approved the measure. [History, Amendments & Comments]
The vote was 25 in favor, 12 opposed, and 1 not voting
(Senate Roll Call 263 at Senate Journal 39)
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The following legislators supported 2008 Senate Joint Resolution L (Require supermajority for any service tax ):
The following legislators opposed 2008 Senate Joint Resolution L (Require supermajority for any service tax ):
| Basham (D) | Brater (D) | Clark-Coleman (D) | Clarke (D) | Gleason (D) | Jacobs (D) |
| Olshove (D) | Prusi (D) | Scott (D) | Switalski (D) | Thomas (D) | Whitmer (D) |
The following legislators did not vote on 2008 Senate Joint Resolution L (Require supermajority for any service tax ):
| Cherry (D) |
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1) Now, for the *actual* lesson [by Anonymous Citizen on April 30, 2008]It's a rare day when any government offers to allow its own powers to be diminished.
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to insert some imaginary right of homosexuals to marry, would you?
This statement is the reason we need LESS government. Remember, you guys work for us!
"I find it ironic that you want to insert into our guiding document this paragraph that is big, nebulous, and really has had no opportunity to be studied or analyzed by our fiscal agencies, by Treasury, our attorneys, or anyone just so you can garner a headline here on Tax Day. I find that disturbing, and for that reason, among others, one of which being should not it be printed or reproduced in five days. We barely got five minutes with this, folks."
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Well illustrates how a rather small minority can control the fate of legislation when it requires a super majority for passage.
Good civics lesson, although many dunces will fail to absorb it.
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