Here's why I would have been a bad parent (or politician, for that matter). I would have given them their measly little tax cut just to get them to SHUT the FUCK UP, quit bothering me, you whining little brats. But see? That's why I would not have been any good at this. If you encourage the Republicans reckless fiscal behavior, they just continue on with it.
Jen told 'em to stuff it, even though it makes her look like the bad guy to those kids that want their candy before dinner. Now they will run around screaming "she's against small business! waaaah!", just like two year olds denied their treats.
It's for their (and our) own good.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Friday vetoed Republican-sponsored bills that would slice taxes for about 35,000 small businesses and keep Michigan from adopting workplace ergonomics rules.
The Democratic governor said the tax cut bill is a "piecemeal approach" to improving Michigan's tax climate, and the lost revenue wouldn't be covered by offsetting revenue.
"The leadership of both the Senate and the House of Representatives have promised publicly and privately to close tax loopholes to pay for reductions in business taxes," Granholm said in her veto letter. "That promise was not kept."
"You didn't clean your room, so no XBox tonight."
This elicited a wail of outrage from the children.
"The governor had an opportunity to prove that what she says and what she does are the same thing. Instead, she vetoed two critical bills for job providers and in the process vetoed her credibility," Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema, R-Wyoming, said in a statement.
Also Friday, the governor vetoed part of a bill that would have tucked leftover money from the last budget year into the state's Budget Stabilization Fund, which is known as the rainy day fund.
Granholm said if she had signed the bill and the tax cut, a deficit would have resulted.
I like to think that she left it open to take the cut out of the Rainy Day fund. Heck, what's a whopping $30 million from $118 (or something like that- I don't feel like looking up the figures). Not much.
This is yet another example of the Republican legislature not working with the Governor for the purpose of making her look bad. They could have had all their little bills, from the welfare to the transit to the tax cuts, if only that had compromised and been responsible. But they won't, so Michigan pays. Again.
Time to send these kids to reform school.
I guess being the parent of young children is good training for dealing with our legislature.