This is a copy of the email that I sent to my state senator regarding two issues, upcoming tax breaks for business, additional tax burdens for seniors, and a proposal that would allow the governor to dissolve public entities and replace them with individuals or corporations upon his finding that the entities were in a state of emergency (apparently his definition).
I am deeply disturbed by two issues, which I would like to share with you.
I am at a loss to explain how anyone could support raising taxes on the poor and seniors and eliminating the deduction for public schools while at the same time advocating a tax cut for business. I have absolutely NO confidence that the tax cut for business will somehow stimulate the economy in any real sense. If the situation is so dire that you need to take it out on the poor and seniors it seems incredible that you would then give that money away. Usually Republicans are more subtle in their disregard for these groups.
I am not one to hyperbole, but I think the idea that the State could dissolve or run ill performing duly elected public entities is “big government” in the extreme, and frankly smacks of a totalitarian state, which I would have guessed an impossible ideal for your party. The idea that Governor Snyder (or frankly the entire Senate and House) can make better decisions about what should happen in Elk Rapids is anathema.
The long and the short of this is that it makes Wisconsin Governor Walker’s overreach look like a picnic. Supporting this bill may well be political suicide, but what is more important is that I can’t imagine that any rational person would think this is a good idea. You, sir, are better than this. The financial crises, while real, is not an excuse to pull out the stops on a larger and unrelated agenda.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Miles
Elk Rapids, MI
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