Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on November 30, 2007, to authorize a credit against the Michigan Business Tax equal to 3.9 percent of employee compensation costs for research and development done at a hybrid automotive drive train research center in Troy established by GM, Chrysler and BMW, with a maximum annual credit of $2 million

The vote was 36 in favor, 1 opposed and 1 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 546 at Senate Journal 128)

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Senator Cassis, under her constitutional right of protest (Art. 4, Sec. 18), protested against the passage of Senate Bill No.944. Senator Cassis' statement is as follows: Bold headlines in a leading newspaper today read, "Granholm: I'll never raise taxes again. The most important thing I learned this year is that I am not ever going to raise taxes again." My fellow Senators, our chief executive seems to have had a new revelation and has proclaimed to her subjects, not just in a church confessional. My question this morning is, will my fellow Senators follow their leader? Senate Bill No.94, besides being unfair in choosing winners, calls on us to provide funds. Where will this body find those necessary funds? Will it be shift and shaft or raise taxes? Is this body sending another dose of cynicism and disbelief to our electorate?

if this is a good idea, capitalism will make it fly. If not let if rot.