[Michigan GOP Senate Majority Leader]Sikkema proposes delaying income tax cut [In Bed With Graholm]

AP ^ | 12/08/2003 | Amy F. Bailey / Associated Press

[ClintonBeGone]

LANSING -- Republican state Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema on Monday proposed delaying January's income tax cut until July to help resolve the state's budget deficit.

Sikkema is the first Republican legislative leader to propose delaying next month's scheduled income tax cut and his plan is a departure from the state Republican Party, which is strongly opposed to postponing the cut.

[rodeocowboy]

I know where the state could shore up the budget. They could cut the Department of Consumer and Industry Services and the regulatory section of FIA down to just about nothing. Talk about a power-hungry, obviously non-elected bureaucracy! They regulate businesses almost out of existence; and, they eat up a ton of the money (mostly businesses pay) we could enjoy in tax cuts, K-12 education, collegiate aid, etc.

[ClintonBeGone]

I think the GOP house tried that and then Jenny got all up and arms and Sikkema restored the funding.