Michigan must raise taxes – by a LOT – or "people will die." That's the message from our ineffectual, gutless leader in Lansing. She's referring to proposed cuts to Medicaid to help balance a bloated state budget with a $700 million shortfall. It's the basest, most incendiary rhetoric in the book--and she uses it with abandon in every declaration du jour."Cut welfare spending, and PEOPLE WILL GO HUNGRY AND DIE."
"Cut education spending, and PEOPLE WILL BE DUMB AND DIE."
"Cut highway spending, and PEOPLE WILL HAVE ACCIDENTS AND DIE."
"Cut any form of spending whatsoever, and PEOPLE WILL DIE."
Or some variation on that theme.
So yes, let's not cut spending. Let's raise taxes. Provide incentive for people and businesses to leave the state. Shrink the economy, thereby reducing state revenue. And instigate new tax hikes to cover the shortfall.
And guess what. When that happens, PEOPLE WILL STILL DIE.
I'm disgusted.
