Where does Michigan go from here?

The votes are in and Michigan will see a tax increase from 3.9% to 4.35%. We will also see an expand in Michigan's sales taxes added to things like our landscaping, spa days, massages etc. Our teachers will also see some changes in their benefit. What will those in Lansing see????

This is only the beginning and the legislature has a 30 day continuation plan out. Which means in additon to the 9 months they had to decide, 1 more month is added on to that. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, give the slackers more time to slack off.

What the Legislature did was unacceptable. Personally, and you could disagree with me, I believe that the decisions that were made were not the decisions they believed were best for Michigan, but the decision they believed would put them back in office come reelection time. Over and over I 've heard that they could not turn their back on the ones whom supported them finacially. With the MESA, Democrats did not want to break the bond that they had, but yet the tax payers could continue to lose out more and more. Did you know that the Democrats (some) wanted to raise the taxes to 4.6%. Wow, that is alot of over time, don't you think. I wrote each Legislature and I told them that I thought a small tax increase would be understandable. However, a reduction by 10% to the salaries would be a good look for Michigan as well.

Michigan Legislature are the second highest paid Legislature in the United States and I quote "There is no minimum or maximum number of days for which a session of the legislature must meet each year. Although there is no universal definition as to what constitutes a full-time legislature, the Michigan Legislature is one of only eleven full-time state legislatures in the nation.[1]Michigan's legislators receive a base salary of $79,650 per year which makes them the second-highest paid legislators in the nation, after California. Legislators also receive a $1,000 per month per diem in addition to their base salary. [2] Unlike those states which are considered to have a part-time legislature and whose members are paid only for actual days in session, Michigan's legislators are paid an annual salary regardless of the number of meeting days and are considered to be full-time." I gathered this infomation from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Legislature

Do you believe they can take a pay cut?? Should the tax payers be fully responsible for getting Michigan back on track financially?

Did you know that the first gentleman is paying a staff member $115,000 dollars with a beautiful benefit package???? This is annually you guys. He has three of which he pays salary to. Our dear Jenny gets paid $160,000 a year plus $66,000 misc.

When you makes decisions at the last minute, you have to face the consequences in the long run. These individuals clearly were not ready for this. This is the game of Politics and the tax payers have to strike out. Should any of them be reelected? If I had to decide now I would say no because they cannot compromise and they do not know how to be a team.

Some blame it on term limits, I blame it on lack of social skills. In my college courses, my instructor would tell me and my class that we need to get into groups for our final project. At that time I know I would only know this person for like three months, but I also know I have to get a good grade. We compromise on everything from who write to whom prepare the speech, to where and when we meet.

It has nothing to do with term limits. When you have a job do it. As a politician your job is not promise the next term whether we have term limits or not.