Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on September 19, 2007, to a variety of services and items that are currently exempt including toll free phone services (800-numbers, WATTS lines, etc.) and international calls; food from vending machines, meals provided by an employer to employees; magazines; movies; retail sales the debt for which is uncollectible; certain air, truck and rail equipment used in interstate commerce; industrial pollution control equipment; industrial machinery computere components and their software; and much more. The bill was introduced in the midst of a contentious budget battle and according to news reports, some of the provisions were intended to pressure the business community into supporting tax hikes that would allow the state to avoid spending cuts

The vote was 58 in favor, 49 opposed and 3 not voting

(House Roll Call 398 at House Journal 95)

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Will the last one in Michigan please turn out the lights?????????

They are finally starting to simplify the tax code. This should make Michigan a very attractive place to live and operate a business.

Is this your idea of another incentive for business in Michigan, Andy? It would seem you flunked Accounting 101 and Econ 101. Great job!

I guess they are. Businesses, if you own it, sell it, buy it, or use it we are going to tax it! If you hire more people, we'll tax you and them. If you make a profit, we'll tax it. If you lose money, we'll tax it. If you expand your business, we'll tax it. If you buy property, we'll tax it. If you sell property, we'll tax it. About the only way we won't tax you is if you move out of state. Bye bye!

Yeah I guess it is simple when they start taxing EVERYTHING, then there is no guessing on anything. How many breaths of air did I take today??? If I weren't so LIVID about the LUNACY of these RIDICULOUS tax ideas, I might be laughing my a** off. I really hope our elected officials are reading these posts so they understand the exteme opposition to tax increases that they seem to want to force down our throats. WAKE UP MICHIGAN LEGISLATURE!!!

That describes our current legislature. Tax everything. The last one out please turn off the lights. Oh, they have already been turned off for non-payment as a result of gross incompetence!

Will the last one in Michigan please turn out the lights?

This is what we get for electing people who have no idea how to run a business... We deserve everything we get. Oh, I wish we had elected Dick DeVos. I am shutting down my nursery business and moving out of this sorry place!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agree....they are taxing EVERYTHING!!!! I want to move but I can't sell my house right now...no one here can afford to buy it. Hey, I just might leave anyway...several people I know have just left their homes and moved to another state. Good Luck to all of you poor people that are left here to pay all this governments taxes...and they wonder why business and people don't want to live here...wake up Granholm!!!!!