Michigan delays adopting the Michigan FairTax at its own peril. Adopt the FairTax now!

All of this other political posturing we are doing is as effective as re-aranging the furniture on the deck of the Titanic – we are going down by the bow! How much more proof do we need that the existing system has failed?

While probably not the only solution we need, the FairTax is the largest and most effective single solution we can implement.

Look around you. Not just for a pleasant peninsula, but at the absence of Business! Our state suffers from a lack of business capital investment because our public policies repel it. The FairTax will help make Michigan a Business Capital MAGNET again.

Look what the Movie Industry Subsidy has done just since April 08! In 2007, movie companies spent $2 Million making movies in Michigan; in the last 9 months of 2008, they spent over $165 Million here!

We have proven that tax incentives work time and time again. Instead of staying with the current (horribly divisive) practice of having our government pick Winners & Losers, just imagine what this state, with our awesome workforce and solid infrastructure, would be like when we set business taxation to zero!!

The Michigan FairTax is, well, Fair. Eminently Fair. (And taxing a business is different than taxing a Business OWNER. The FairTax taxes the Business Owner whenever he or she purchases anything for personal use.) Everyone will pay in to the system – including drug dealers, car thieves and illegal immigrants!

It is past the time that we free up our wealth-creating engines in this state and let business entitities do what they are designed to do – create wealth for us all. It is past the time for the Michigan FairTax.

Our recovery starts the day it becomes our taxing system.

There is a simple answer to Michigan's perennial tax revenue crisis. It is called the MI FairTax, it solves our problem by eliminating the MBT and individual income tax and replacing the revenue with a loophole free retail sales tax.

Most all economists agree that business taxes are an impediment to business growth and individual income taxes are a disincentive to productive behavior (work, investing, saving, etc.). While all taxes negatively impact business and productivity, consumption taxes are much less damaging to the economy.

As Dr. Alan Greenspan lectured the U.S. Congress, “Businesses do NOT pay taxes, only people pay taxes.” What the Dr. was pointing out is that businesses treat taxes like any other cost of doing business, they pass them on to consumers in higher prices.

Michigan would go to the front of the line for attracting business by creating a tax environment that eliminated the ruse of business taxes. We read how business tax abatements and/or reductions have been successfully used to attract particular businesses to a community. What do you think would be the response if all state business taxes were eliminated permanently?

Michigan residents are sufficiently mature to understand the dishonest practice of hiding their taxes in the prices of the products they buy via the taxation of businesses. They can see that the tax inflated prices their employer must charge for what the company sells places them at a competitive disadvantage. They are aware that they are losing their jobs because of the dishonest practice of hiding taxes in prices. They are now looking for tax reform to stop this practice as the major means to increase jobs in Michigan.

Many politicians and policy wonks fear that Michigan citizens are not able to understand that they pay all business taxes. For this reason, the politicians and wonks offer proposals that continue to tax businesses, thereby, perpetuating the lie that business are paying taxes… when the result is that companies and jobs exit our state. Trust the citizen and explain the simple economics at every opportunity… the public is smarter than you think!

Eliminating the income tax on individuals eliminates this great disincentive for productive behavior. How can it make sense to penalize individuals via an income tax for doing things that contribute to society (work, investment, savings, etc.) A retail sales tax is paid only when an individual takes from society

The Michigan FairTax is the solution. Go to http://www.mifairtax.org for more information and research.

The Prebate allowance built into the MI FairTax covering poverty level expenditures makes it progressive, simple and fair to everyone.
The MI FairTax lets the public determine what the tax burden will be instead of the legislature! Whether it goes higher or lower is up to the public! The issue is less about the total burden as it is about the method we use to collect the revenue! Our tax system, not the level of taxation, is killing our job growth! It is the BEST in terms of economics and that creates jobs which should be our FIRST priority!

Notwithstanding the diverse interests when it comes to taxation, I agree that it is time to completely revamp Michigan's ailing tax structure for all types of taxes, including property taxes. Perhaps if we looked at the total tax burden the state's tax structure imposes on various groups we could have a more informed and meaningful discussion about tax policy, who pays, and who should pay.

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