Taxing & Spending

Shamefull

AnthonyGR — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:49:52 GMT

Lets take care of the addicted, but after the municipal facilities are paid for, of course. Passing a law to make a previous illegal legislative action legal, just another day in lansing.

they are all about gimmicks

Anonymous Citizen — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:40:30 GMT

in Lansing. Let's keep shortchanging local governments. I'm sure the counties will find money somewhere to help with substance abuse programs. Or they could just lock them up! Sure it costs more, but so what? Keep the money in Lansing, after all, aren't they doing a much better job with it????

Another Gimmick

jmd364 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:20:41 GMT

Way to go Mickey! Robbing Peter again?

2007 Senate Bill 774 (Allow convention facility “fund raids” )

admin — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT

Introduced in the Senate on September 12, 2007, to amend the State convention facility development act to specifically allow the “fund raid” used by the legislature as part of the deal to borrow and shift funds to avoid spending cuts in the Fiscal Year 2006-2007 budget. This deal used $35 million of the liquor and hotel tax revenues that are supposed to pay for debt service on Cobo Hall and other municipal convention facilities. This bill would eliminate any ambiguity related to the legality of that action, and future ones. The bill also makes provisions for continuing the disbursements of a portion the revenue to this fund to counties for abuse treatment programs, once the amount required to make payments on the Cobo and other bonds have been disbursed

The vote was 38 in favor, 0 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 337 at Senate Journal 90)

Click here to view bill details.