Posted on 08/28/2025 1:09:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As Michigan lawmakers debate next year’s budget, the Democratic lieutenant governor — who’s running for governor in 2026 — floated an idea to hit back at some of the Trump administration’s spending cuts and get more money into the state government’s coffers: raise taxes on the wealthiest Trump supporters.
In a video obtained by The Daily Wire, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist told a group of Democrats earlier this month that the Trump administration has “attacked our people” by cutting funding to universities and “attacking those of us who are getting our health care from Medicaid.” Gilchrist made the remarks during a video call with the Kent County, Michigan, Democratic Party on August 13 as he gears up for a competitive Democratic primary in the 2026 Michigan governor’s race.
“We’re going to fight back and say, ‘Hell no, we’re not going to accept that,'” Gilchrist added. “And frankly, it pisses me off that we don’t have enough money in Michigan to be able to afford to backfill this $1.1 billion hole we’ve blown in the budget. I know how we could get a little bit more of that money — if we actually tax the wealthiest mega MAGA rich people in this state … if we actually went after the biggest companies that got a tax cut from [former Republican Governor] Rick Snyder and the Republicans.”
Raising taxes on some people based on their political leanings wouldn’t be possible and would run into numerous legal issues if it were even attempted. Gilchrist’s suggestion to hit wealthy Trump supporters with higher taxes is also a questionable political tactic, given that Michigan is a swing state that President Trump won in both 2016 and 2024.
The lieutenant governor’s comments, however, played well with the Democratic base, as the audience...
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Why not propose taking all the money away from billionaires, maybe that would wake them up.
I Propose A Tax Hike On Politicians Who Became Rich From Their Office.
How do you like me now?
So he is going to have a new tax that only MAGA supporters have to pay?
Democrats are demented, impossible people.
And they’re “progressing” into a deep hole.
When you tax a corporation, where does he think that money comes from? It comes from the consumer, you idiot. All you’re doing is taking money from the consumer but pretending it comes from the corporation. Unless that corporation has all of it customers outside the US economy, you’re taxing the consumer. Call it for what it is. How about this for a novel approach: Instead of taxing more, how about spending less?
The government is not taking anything away from you when itdoesn't give you money.
Government does take something from you when it taxes you.
If you take all the money from the billionaires this year, then who will pay the taxes next year?
Nobody, the government will collapse.
Lots of liberal rich people also. You think they are just going to take it. They will move and take their money with them and you will get nothing.
That’s the TOP? WOW!
Was better known by the name "Cookie"
Gee, look. Another brainwashed house negro
it is the liberal rich who are always crying about not paying enough taxes, so tax THEM.
Tax all the demoncRAT mega billionaires instead. H’weirdo is full of them along with George Soros, Bill Gates, Daddy Gates and so many more that got rich during creepy gropin’ pedophile slowjoe’s admin & odoofus the illegal islamic admin and don’t forget the corrupt clintoonian admin.
Future Ohio governor Ramaswamy will welcome Michigan MAGA millionaires at the border with a hug and a new scarlet and gray jersey when they shed the unholy maize and blue
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