As a committed Democrat it's hard for me to admit in public that I'm fed up with Governor Granholm. The woman just does not have the guts to win against a bunch of retrograde conservatives in the State Senate. She was so traumatized by the 2007 budget fight that she has caved entirely and announced that there will no new taxes or fees in 2008.
Meanwhile you have situations like the DNR, which does not have enough money to keep all the state parks open this year. A creative solution has been proposed where the daily entrance fees would be dropped in favor of a $9 fee charged on all Michigan license plates.
It's not mandatory because people can opt out of the fee, but since it's a new charge it doesn't meet Granholm's pledge. An then there's Rep. Joel Sheltrown, chairman of the committee responsible for the DNR who thinks $9 is just way out of line (ignoring the opt out provision.) He would rather play games with allocating sales taxes on sporting goods, as if this money is not already being used elsewhere in the budget.
So it's only February and already we are looking for ways to patch up the state budget, since Lansing didn't get the job done in 2007. This is pathetic
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