Want to re-start Michigan? Simple, cut taxes - a lot.
Michigan has something called the single business tax, it accounts for about a third of its receipts. It is the same Valued Added Tax that is killing Europe. They will never get rid of it.
Guv Granholm mused how to create an environment that would nurture young entrepreneurs. My reply is the innovators create themselves, just worry if they want to pursue their dreams in your state or below the Mason-Dixon Line. The VAT kills startups and nothing is replacing the auto industry.
Tony Snow was on WLSAM the other morning, he just ripped on Detroit. Said it had the highest taxes of any city in the whole country. Except the favored businesses that are exempted from them. Basically, Tony said good bye and good riddance to the whole state.
Delphi has immediate problems, the UAW is planning to shut it down until it restores benefits, and they're going to make it an election issue. Just like Blanco said she's going to close oil leases in LA until she gets more rebuilding money.
Time to choose up sides RINO America.