I'll take "Quotes that make your head want to explode" for $500, Alex.
What Dick fails to mention is that it is he and the Republicans who have created this uncertainty in the first place.
From the Kalamazoo Gazette-
"We've got to fix this," DeVos said about the business-tax structure. "The SBT hurt us, and the uncertainty (of what will replace it) is hurting us."
He also has the audacity to once again blame Granholm for failing to take a "leadership position" on this issue, a statement which rings completely false since she is the only candidate in ths race who has put something on the table for the replacement for the SBT.
The only one.
Where is Dick's plan? He won't tell you until "after the election".
Here is Dick's idea of "leadership". Tim Skubick, last April-
DeVos went on to say he may not reveal any specific plan at all - at least, not until after the November election.
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DeVos' answer boils down to this, apparently: He has no answer. Or at least one he's willing to share with voters.
By August, Dick had a new excuse, claiming that he "didn't have the figures" to produce an answer, which Tim Skubick pointed out was "baloney".
Dick has been singing this song all year. Want a direct quote? From June, in an interview from the Detroit News-
Q. Help us here then. Write the headline for us on the heart of this plan.
A . Eliminate the Single Business Tax.
Q . And ?
A . We'll deal with that. Let's eliminate it first. The governor has been governor for three and a half years and has yet to put a plan on the table to do anything.
Apparently leadership, in Dick's mind, is to avoid taking responsibility on answering specific questions from the public on your plans, change your story as time goes on, and to... oh, let's just say it, why don't we... lie about your opponent's record.
Here is a timeline that shows who is providing "leadership" and who is "hurting" our state.
Granholm called for a rewrite of the SBT (let's not get into semantics of repeal vs. rewrite) during her campaign way back in 2002.
After cleaning up some of the mess Engler left, she started this ball in motion at the end of 2003- and by May of 2004 people were coming up with proposals and ideas. Republicans were "studying" the issue at that time also, proving that the information they needed was indeed available to them back then, no matter what Dick says now.
Granholm released her plan in the beginning of 2005. An agreement was reached in November of last year to lower the SBT and that was scuttled by the DeVos family at the last minute. Republicans were supposed to work on the issue this year- and put it off yet again, instead taking the time to pass a repeal which they knew would be met with a veto, and even then Granholm would have signed it had they made the simple agreement that they wouldn't raise taxes on citizens. No can do, said the Republicans. They then went ahead and passed the Patterson petition, a move that is now hindering the creation of jobs and investment by leaving business in limbo and has revised our state's outlook to "negative" with Standard and Poor's.
Long story short: Dick DeVos and the MI GOP created the situation that is "hurting us" and in typical Republican fashion is trying to pass the blame.
And people wonder why I get headaches.