RE: What is a legal
What corporate tax incentive?
Are you joking?
I heard from Levins office on this big to do about nothing package he came up with but when you read through it, it reads like an auto company and supplier directory.
There is a conference in Mackanaw, Mackinac Center for economic study puts it on, where all the leaders of the south east Michigan (which now include Windsor for some un-Godly reason) postulate all these ideas to help the struggling economy, but not one of them can put it in action or look at other states. They are like some children of the corn people who live in this fantasy world.
For example - we have the godfather, L Brooks Paterson who owns Oakland county where D-C is saying he wants to put money into Cobo hall in Detroit to expand the auto show but he is sitting on the best piece of tax payer property that could be turned into a comparable venue like Chicago’s McCormick center or other venues that is five times as large as Cobo but no they want to add more taxes to pay for it. Why dump money into Detroit with their mis-managed and corrupt government at our expense? Take the money and use it to reuse the property that was abandoned by the Lions – who should have never been allowed to build a new stadium to begin with. The shame of it is that these idiots sit up there and think of ways of improving Michigan but not one of them can go to Indiana or Ohio and find out why they are still having companies come in while people are leaving our state.
I have a few solutions to solve this stupidity problem and get the state back on track.
The first thing is get rid of the governor and her cronies. That will reduce the budget by a lot alone.
The second thing is get rid or the stupid ads from Jeff Dainels, who cares if this guy builds batteries for NASA, the problem is he didn’t hire a lot of people from Michigan to work there. I would instead hire sales people on commission to get businesses to look at Michigan and if they move, great they get a lot of money (the sales people that is).
The third thing is I would really build up the tourist thing, right now we have nothing – many states make this a selling point to show off their state. Big deal the henry ford, and the automotive history museum where they don’t include all the people that actually did something for the industry. We have no amusement parks, or don’t think we do, we don’t have really good parks or camping like we used to (they are actually talking about selling our parks to pay for the up keep of some stuff), Detroit close the aquarium and killed all the fish (actually I think they grilled them), we have one race track in the state, MIS and we have a few thousand acres in Detroit sitting there doing nothing and it would make a great track but too many people will complain about it so they can still be unemployed but at least they can hear the shootings and dog fights. The point is that we lack a lot in south east Michigan and people there think that they have a lot to do. We lack real good places to eat and lack communities.
The fourth thing is I would restructure the entire income tax system at the same time have a vote to make the state legislator part time – what a waste of money having full time people doing nothing to begin with. Oh I would also yank the water department from Detroit’s hands and make it regional
The fifth thing is I would try to eliminate property tax or at least get the voters to vote on a prop 13 type property tax system. I can tell you that property tax is actually chasing people out of the state, I am one who has my taxes doubled since I bought the house and my vacant land is around $800 a year, which is 8 times the amount I paid when I got the land but the values has gone down a lot.
The Sixth thing is I would allow more ‘no tax’ zones for small and medium businesses, including depressed cities. Not just this enterprise zone where all the mayor’s friends own the property or the governor (in her former capacity) has something to do with the sale of key parcels. I would also make it a point that if a big business wants to move here and get a tax abatement, they have to hire from the state, not outsource for ten years or move – other wise they pay back all the back taxes plus interest.
