Posted on 09/30/2007 5:20:53 PM PDT by blu
Here's what's making our state shut down at midnight. This is what the dim dam Dems want :
The Detroit News Lansing Bureau
Services that would be subject to the 6 percent sales tax under a bill being considered by lawmakers today are:
Astrology services
Carpet cleaning
Consulting services
Investigation, guard and armored car services
Janitorial
Landscaping
Baby-shoe bronzing
Bail bonding
Balloon-o-grams
Coin operated blood pressure testing
Check room services (coat checks)
Concierge services
Dating services
Social escort services
Fortune telling
House sitting
Coin-operated locker rental
Palm reading
Party planning
Porter services
Psychic services
Rest room operation services
Shoe shines
Singing telegrams
Wedding planning
Wedding chapel services (not churches)
Scenic transportation services
Skiing services
Tour operator services
Personal care (except hair care, including manicure, pedicure. etc)
Security system services
Mini-warehouse and self-storage unit services
Business service center services (e.g., hire out payroll service)
Investment advice
Consumer buying services
Discount buying services
Genealogical investigation
Social introduction services
Numerology services
Pay telephone services
Personal fitness training
Personal shopping services
Coin-operated photographic machines
Phrenology services
Packaging and labeling
Specialized design services
Passenger and ground transport services
Courier and messenger services
Document preparation
Greedy suckers... How in the world are they going to tax all that stuff?
Won't they need that to figure out what's in the future?
I’m from Mi, I am ok with taxing services- non essential services. And- one house is controlled by Republicans, the other by democrats.
I think the future of Michigan is easy to predict.
An astrologer won’t be needed
Tax the taxes. Tax the folks when they take a dump. Tax them when they inhale...........and exhale. Poor Michigan.
By any chance were all of these saervices paid for by the Detroit Board of Education?
Hmmmmm I didn’t see lawyers listed anywhere.......
saervices = services
PIMF
Nice to hear for you, red, .. knowing that you're OK with yet another tax tells me a lot about you.
The Democrats passed a service tax in the House without a single Republican vote.
The people of Michigan need to fight this the same way that those of Tennessee fought off the income tax a few years ago - flock to the state capital and protest persistently. Write to the editor of the local papers. Expose the waste. And most important of all, run all the supporters of this (and other) tax out of office. Nothing says “we’ve had enough” like being an unemployed politician.
The people of Michigan need to fight this the same way that those of Tennessee fought off the income tax a few years ago - flock to the state capital and protest persistently. Write to the editor of the local papers. Expose the waste. And most important of all, run all the supporters of this (and other) tax out of office. Nothing says “we’ve had enough” like being an unemployed politician.
Let em tax em, the more the blue states tax and fail the faster people might wake up to the Socialist hell presented by the Dhims.
To add insult to injury, Wisconsin beat Michigan State in college football. Go Bucky!!
sorry about the double post - impatience!
Let me remind people in Michigan... and the rest of the USA... that the last 8 years of Engler, and the 4 years after that, saw our budget grow from $29 billion to $41 billion. Who was in charge of Michigan all those years? Well, it was the GOP.
Engler and his pals did downsize things in those first few years, but after that went on an orgy of spending. Far from being the “small and efficient” government types, they spend like drunk pig sailors on shore leave.
The poster child of all of this spending was former Speaker of the House Johnson, who was hand-picked to that position. He championed a project where all 6th graders in the State would be given notebook computers. This program survived 3 years, all of which were years when the Legislature was forced to cut per-student spending.
And who went to EDS to sell computer stuff to state governments? Why, it was our old friend Mr. Engler. Gosh, you gotta feed those triplets somehow, don’t you?
The last 6 years, the GOP has done every accounting trick, has spent the tobacco settlement, increased fines and fees (including the simply evil “Driver Responsibility tax”), all while saying that they didn’t raise taxes and were the champions of small government.
Well, this year the shtuff hit the fan. There was no where to hide. Instead of addressing the bloat and waste in government as the party that holds both sides of the Legislature and the Gov’s mansion, we’re left to snivel and work for deals.
When the GOP calls me for a donation, my response will be that I’d be able to make a donation if I had a JOB, and if my family’s budget wasn’t CUT because they failed to cut theirs for 16 years.
Yes, I’m angry. I didn’t leave the GOP in Michigan, they left ME!
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