Just as we were warned by Grand Rapids’ police chief before this year’s income tax hike that a failure of the tax increase would result in ‘increased risk’ for city residents, the Police union in Bay, Michigan is actually threatening residents that they will be “beaten, shot, stabbed robbed” if the city doesn’t...
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In a story that was the same time baffling and a bit funny, the City of Grand Rapids has decided to keep six full time parking lot attendants on the payroll, even though their jobs were replaced with automated parking lot machines. Here’s a quote from the article: “When automated ticketing machines took over...
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Ouch! The Senate Fiscal Agency just released their February report of state revenue and it’s a doozy. A couple of quotes: While tax collections in February were expected to fall below last year’s level, due primarily to the impact of the economic recession, the decline was much worse than expected . . . In addition, tax collections...
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Today Volkswagen announced that they will not be building a new car factory in Michigan. They opted to Tennessee instead. According to the article: Chattanooga won the site because of incentives and tax breaks offered by Tennessee and better infrastructure, the person said. Alabama was a close second while Michigan had been out of...
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The taxpayers of Michigan traded minimal reforms for a massive tax hike this past weekend. A new 6% service tax will apply to the following services: Astrology services Carpet cleaning Consulting services Investigation, guard and armored car services Janitorial Commercial landscaping services Baby-shoe bronzing Bail bonding Balloon-o-grams Coin-operated blood pressure testing Check room services...
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Our state government shut down this morning at 12:01 am and remained shut down until 4:18am, when two Senate Republicans broke ranks and voted in favor of $1.5 billion in tax increases. Freedom rang across the land for 258 minutes, but alas, the politicians relented and voted to destroy more jobs by raising our...
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Don’t forget to vote tomorrow (Tuesday, May 8th). There are three tax issues on the ballot in Grand Rapids, and everyone in Kent County gets to vote on the Grand Rapids Community College tax hike. If you live in Grand Rapids, East Grand Rapids, Kentwood, Walker, Wyoming, or Grandville, you get the pleasure of...
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