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Michigan Public Radio - Jack Lessenberry: "The Promise We Need"


By The Center for Michigan - January 17, 2007

What always amuses me is the degree to which most of us have been brainwashed about taxes. After years of irresponsible tax cuts, there seems to be some slight possibility now of a modest increase so that the state can pay its necessary bills.

Actually, it would be more correct to say that there is someĀ  possibility of a rational discussion about state revenues. But even that has been more than enough to give some ideologues fits. I am now being blasted with e-mail from various groups urging me to help do something to save us from a tax hike.

Read the entire article at Jack Lessenberry's Essays and Interviews


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