Friday, November 17, 2006

MI Republicans still stalling on the SBT

Gutless wonders. Oh well. They finally kicked the can right down the road into the hands of a Democratic House.



LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- The incoming state Senate majority leader said Thursday that he needs to meet with fellow Republicans before laying out priorities for 2007, but he listed the economy and health care as top issues.


Translation: "I haven't received my orders yet".



You would think the "priorities" would have been set before the election, you know, to present to the voters. But then again, that might have cost them the Senate, too, had their real plans been revealed.



Probably busy running them through the shredder right now.



Sen. Mike Bishop of Rochester was elected as the GOP leader this week and will be the Capitol's most powerful Republican, since Democrats won control of the House and Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm won a second term.



Bishop said lawmakers have plenty of time to work on alternatives to the state's Single Business Tax, which will die at the end of 2007.



"We don't want to rush to any conclusions, and certainly there are a lot of ideas out there," Bishop said of a new business tax. "But this is all too important to rush to a final decision too quick."


Yes, way too important to rush to any decisions. We might ruin our good name on Wall Street or something.



Back in August, when the MI GOP was dancing on the grave of the SBT and thinking they were so clever that they pulled off this end-run on the Governor, we heard Craig DeRoche say, "This is a signal to Michigan taxpayers and workers that the GOP wants to reform how our state operates."



Except the GOP would never tell us how they planned to do that. Still waiting on that committee report, I guess.

Oops. Too late. Time to let the adults figure it out.



What would we do without the Democrats to clean up the Republican's fiscal mess?