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Senate Dems Introduce Legislation To Raise Revenue

by: io

Wed Sep 12, 2007 at 13:28:10 PM EDT



If you've been watching, you've likely noticed that the Senate is refusing to move on revenues.  Essentially Mike Bishop is trying to force the House to go first.

Today the Senate Democrats introduced legislation that gives the Senate another option.

"Today I introduced a package of bills that will help us solve this budget crisis in a swift and responsible manner," said Liz Brater (D-Ann Arbor), lead sponsor of the legislation. "These bills allow us to come together in the Senate to enact a long-term, comprehensive fix that will protect critical services and allow us to invest in our people. I look forward to working with all of my colleagues to move forward and meet our responsibilities to the people of Michigan."

The bills make a number of technical changes to the income, sales, and use tax acts and can be amended to provide needed revenue for critical state services. Senate Republicans have argued that the House must act first on a revenue solution, but these bills provide additional options.

Senator John Gleason (D-Flushing) is a co-sponsor, and Senator Mickey Switalski (D-Roseville) is on record as supporting the bill.  Senator Switalski is the lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

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I love the Senate Dems (0.00 / 0)
I really, really do. They are awesome.

Bishop has no excuse now. None. Zip. Zero. Senate Republicans can OWN those cuts.

Thank you Sentors Brater, Gleason and Switalski. You rock!


Details, Please!!! (4.00 / 1)
I want to make sure the rich pay their fair share under the Senator's plan and that it doesn't stick it to the poor and middle classes...

Yes, details please! (0.00 / 0)


A voice in my head tells me not to be so mean to the conservatives.  I work very hard to ignore that voice.

Vehicle bills? (0.00 / 0)
From what I'm reading the bills are basically vehicles that the Senate could use to plug in whatever can be agreed to (combination of income, luxury sales tax?). AP says this:

Some senators, particularly on the Democratic side, aren't happy about waiting on the House to act on a tax increase. The Senate is better equipped to move first because its members have more experience and tend to get along better than in the larger, more fractured House, said Sen. Michael Switalski, a Democrat from Roseville.

"Citizens see us a single entity - government," Switalski said. "They make no distinction between House and Senate, Republican or Democrat."

Senate Democrats introduced bills this week they say would allow the chamber to move first on the tax increases.




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