If Michigan has a budget surplus, does that mean we are taxed too much, and should get a tax CUT?

[bwlobo]

I like your ideas. I also think a "Right to Work" law in Michigan would do wonders. Right to Work would keep Michigan competitive!
http://www.mackinac.org/16349
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16446

Although Michigan’s unemployment rate has been dropping lately, there’s a disturbing trend developing over the last decade. One in five people in the state received food assistance from the state in 2011, up from 1 in 16 in 2001. If our state unemployment numbers have dropped, I'm wondering why the welfare checks keep going up... http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16445

Another thing you didn't mention is our union problem in Michigan. The biggest fraud of unions in Michigan has to do with the forced union dues taken out of home health care workers! Michigan Quality Community Care Council, the entity that claimed it was the employer in the 2006 unionization of tens of thousands of alleged home health care workers, now says it is not their employer.

But even with the dummy employer admitting it isn't the home health care workers' employer, the major effect of the forced unionization continues.

Dues are still being taken from the checks of at least 56,422 people who provide medical care for home-bound patients and are being sent to the Service Employees International Union. Some of these people are parents or other relatives taking care of the developmentally disabled. Whether they all fit the description of a "home health care worker” has been questioned by some.
http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/16440