Comments on: Improving Michigan's Competitive Position: Shift taxes, don't just eliminate SBT http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/improving-michigans-competitive-position-shift-taxes-dont-just-eliminate-sbt/ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:31:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tom Sullivan http://www.thecenterformichigan.net/blog/improving-michigans-competitive-position-shift-taxes-dont-just-eliminate-sbt/#comment-78244 Tom Sullivan Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:02:53 +0000 http://69.5.25.110/blog/2006/06/28/improving-michigans-competitive-position-shift-taxes-dont-just-eliminate-sbt/#comment-78244 This article begins with the premise that all existent revenue is critical. The idea that more should be taxed perpetuates the bias. Instead, let's trim our governmental operating expenses, keep the areas where we have advantage low, and creatively create even more of them so we can see people migrating into rather than out of Michigan. Our jobless rate can reduce by having far fewer people, or by have a more vibrant economy. The author's idea promotes the former. I'd prefer the latter. This article begins with the premise that all existent revenue is critical. The idea that more should be taxed perpetuates the bias. Instead, let's trim our governmental operating expenses, keep the areas where we have advantage low, and creatively create even more of them so we can see people migrating into rather than out of Michigan.

Our jobless rate can reduce by having far fewer people, or by have a more vibrant economy. The author's idea promotes the former. I'd prefer the latter.

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