Michigan Votes Forum

Why are we adding classifications? I thought we were suppose to be eliminating the business personal property tax??

Yeah, go democrats, another way to tax us!!! Good job.

A graduated tax is the most regressive tax of all because it penalizes those who are most successful. Is it immoral to be successful?

The proposal regarding certificated credits is stupid. Continue to optionally file the MBT? Look, if you want to allow the MBT certificated credits, then at least do them intelligently. Allow them to be used against the MI Corp tax, for maybe the next three years, and then they expire. Having to optionally...

It is imperative that this bill pass. We can no longer afford to allow binding arbitration without any consideration of the ability of the government unit to pay for the decision. We are not talking about workers who have been poorly compensated or taken advantage of but a group of individuals who have...

Thiis is critical!! In this economy with hugh unemployment, many are having trouble paying their property taxed. Such high interest rates simply assure even more people will not be able to pay them, causing more forfeitures.

If you want to encourage businesses to locate in Michigan, make it easy for them to pay their taxes. We should scrap the entire MBT structure. It is complex, attempts to combine a corporate income tax and a european style value-added tax, with the worst of both worlds as a result. Keep it simple. Make...

This woman must hjave majored in 'creative taxation' in college-probably at one of our State-supported universities! What a terrible idea!!

Why does the government continue to pick winners and losers? Why not let the free markets decide? Why must specific companies and/or industries continue to receive specific tax breaks. Lansing uses the same pick and choose procedure for individual taxes breaks. Lets stop this way of legislating. We are...

This tax was trying in Florida years ago and was a complete disaster to administrate and operate. I see no improvement. Why are you exempting business-to-business transactions? Semi-wholesale exemption idea? Pseudo-VAT approach? Too confused to understand what you are doing to the economy?