Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on March 1, 2007, to repeal a use tax exemption on toll free phone services (800-numbers, WATTS lines, etc.) Also, to repeal the use tax exemption on cars sold to public or parochial school drivers education programs. This is one of a number of “tax expenditure repeal” proposals proposed to pay for higher spending in the Fiscal Year 2007-2008 budget. The telephone provision would increase the taxes paid by citizens approximately $22 million, and the drivers education car provision around $700,000

The vote was 58 in favor, 51 opposed and 1 not voting

(House Roll Call 106 at House Journal 35)

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This may be the most incompetent, do nothing legislature we have seen in a long while. They have only one thought, increase taxes on everything. They have never heard of fiscal responsibility, or how to attract business (obviously the enemy)or any meaningful cost containment. Well you have certainly accelerated the demise of business in the state and the exodus of citizens from this state. Congratulations to the inept!

The Democrats have never seen a tax they did not like. They have the misguided belief that they generate revenue rather than just transfer it from one group to another, usually with a negative outcome for most.

The Democrats are doing what the Republicans failed to do! Totally destroying the state!

What we are seeing in Lansing is called a Kakistocracy:Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. No government has ever taxed their way out of a mess like exists in Michigan

Think a business can be run without revenue. Even a ten year old with a lemonade stand knows that if there is no money coming in cutting costs won't help. Too bad you conservative pansies are so afraid of the "t" word. Of course, when it comes to going to Vegas or Florida on vacation and paying their exorbitant sales taxes so their citizens can get a break on income tax you are all for it. Somebody has to pick up the tab, and I am tired of the whiney conservatives in this state who are unwilling to pay their fair share, yet want all their services unchanged. Grow up crybaby's.

i can live without certain 'state services', such as mandatory pistol registration, which doesn't deter crime, has high costs, and is, in some people's opinion, unconstitutional. i can live without other 'state services', such as the DRIVER RESPONSIBILITY FEE, which is a capricious tax disguised as law enforcement. i can also live without about fifty state mandates that only serve to bilk money from the citizens. i can also live without the state prying into my private life in the name of 'doing what's good for me'. i would rather pay a SALES tax than an INCOME tax. a sales tax would only tax those that have the money to BUY things, and not unfairly tax those that don't. while no business can live without revenue, no business deserves to continue doing business that overspends it's earnings. also, this state is so busy spending millions on doing 'BUSINESS' that it has NO BUSINESS DOING. if the state got back to doing the business of the state, and not the business of the nanny, there would be plenty of money. now, as a liberal, i'm sure you see higher taxes as the "DO ALL, END ALL, AND FIX ALL" for this state. remember, no business ever prospered by raising the prices on services they don't deliver. let's be a little more 'BUSINESS-LIKE' in this state.

A business can't be run without revenue. But the state of Michigan isn't a business; no profit motive. All it does is take monies away from businesses and individuals and spend it on other things, some needed, some not. All those other things are less efficiently paid for through taxes than they would be otherwise.

and a lot of those things are things the government has no business buying in the first place. let's take government back to the basics.