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Detroit News's Nolan Finley: "taxpayers shouldn't be bullied"

The Detroit News’s editorial page editor sums up the tax hikers strategy perfectly: “We finally have to set our priorities, to decide whether government will work for the benefit of its citizens or continue to fatten public employees. Unless we turn again to tax hikes. That’s the direction toward which Gov. Jennifer Granholm, public employee unions and the various interest groups at risk of losing big if the budgets get cut are pushing us toward. The tax increase advocates have a stake in driving the process to the deadlines, leaving as little time as possible for the more complex job of restructuring. But taxpayers shouldn’t be bullied. They should remember 2007, when a 20 percent state tax hike was forced through on the promise it would be an “investment” in maintaining Michigan’s quality of life. That turned out to be a Mad-off-sized con.”

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