Rent Seekers

The Michigan Film Subsidies goes a long way to explain the condition of OUR highways and Byways here in the lands of the Wolverine.

OUR private wealth redistributed by legislative decree to "crony capitalists" was defined in the Economist’s March 15, 2014 article as "Rent Seeking". “Rent-seeking” is what economists call a special type of money-making: the sort made possible by political connections.”

The direct result here in Michigan is that Lobbyists pursing "Rent Seeking" for their client base dole out tens of millions of dollars to their targeted elected public officer’s favorite charity, the Political Action Committee to perfect the legislative plundering of OUR State's General Fund of Billions for their "Rent Seekers".

We see the result every spring as poorly built and maintained highways and byways here in the lands of the Wolverine become pitted with Pot Holes.

Metropolitan authorities such as Grand Rapids prey upon the Pothole season to cover up their legislative plunder by claiming the extension of a five year temporary income tax that was terminating this August 1st, 2014, to a fifteen year program will be used to "fill the potholes."

Well for the past two five year extensions of the City’s “Temporary Income Tax” the potholes in Grand Rapids grew every spring.

The same example sits across our Interstate Highway System here in Michigan. Where for the past eight years, the Michigan Department of Transportation has had to issue reconstruction contracts for Overpasses erected in the 1980’s which were built with inferior product. It was the Michigan Department of Transportation Engineers that signed off on these bridge projects in the 1980s that are now crumbling within less than 25 years.

Now as did Grand Rapids last Winter, stands the Lame Duck Session of the 97th Legislature claiming the State needs billions of OUR private wealth exacted from the Fuel Pump to fix what they have knowingly neglected since the enactment of Public Act 231 of 1987.

Public Act 231 of 1987 should be titled "Rent Seeking". The result of this enactment is to this day is the State Transportation Commission is redistributing OUR private wealth exacted at the fuel pump to “Rent Seekers”.

The Crumbling Bridges that spans our Highways built less than 25 years ago is soaking up hundreds of millions of our Current Private Wealth to fix these failed road projects.

Meanwhile whilst the Michigan Department of Transportation was authorizing Bridge Projects in the 1980s, the State Transportation Commission was busy doling out OUR Private Wealth under the legislative plundering authority enacted as Public Act 231 of 1987 to their favorite "Rent Seekers".

Now, in the lame Duck Session of the 97th Legislature, there stands the Majority Leadership doling out millions of OUR Private Wealth to Hollywood Producers who fly into town, for they know our roads are cratered like the surface of the Moon.

Reflect upon those facts whilst cruising our potholed failing roadways herein the lands of the Wolverine as rocks and other debris bounces off your windshield while on the Radio you hear reports that the Lame Duck Session in Lansing attempting to cobble together a "Road Tax Bill” to fix OUR “ROADS”.

Bipartisan Deception, the Progressives' Big Lie

HB 5477 shows the political arrogance of the Majority leader of the State Senate who knowingly crosses the aisle to potentially impose a billion dollar fuel tax increase on Michiganders just eight days after the midterm election.

There is no “funding crisis” for Transportation infrastructure.  There is 37 years of legislative plunder enacted as Public Act 231 of 1987, where fuel taxes are appropriated to fund Transportation economic development projects, which has absolutely nothing to do with maintaining our highways and byways.

The State Senate should have voted to repeal Public Act 231 of 1987, which would have ended the misappropriation of Fuel Taxes to fund non roadway projects.

The Detroit Free Press credits Randy Richardville as assuring the Democratic Senators from Detroit that the 55 percent fuel tax increase presented as House Bill 5477 will be stealthy used under Public Act 231 of 1987 to support “Mass Transit” development and other “projects” known as Transportation economic development projects in Detroit inclusive of other undisclosed urban centers throughout the lands of the Wolverine.

Public Act 231 of 1987 is best defined as legislative plunder.

This Legislative Plunder is defined in Public Act 231 of 1987 as “Transportation economic development projects”.   Transportation economic development projects are political double speak for the redistribution of OUR Private Wealth to fund the Politicians’’ favorite charities, Government orientated kick back contractors best defined as “Crony Capitalists”. 

This is why 13 sitting Republican Senators in the 97^th Legislature’s last lame Duck Session collectively spit in the faces of all Michiganders.  These 13 sitting Republican Senators chose to support a billion dollar fuel tax INCREASE presented by Rob VerHeulen as House Bill 5477 for no reason except to continue the confiscation of our Private Wealth under the false bravado of “Bipartisanship” which is known as the “Big Lie”. 

Moving under the authority of Public Act 231 of 1987 the State Transportation Commission has authorized the legislative plundering of OUR fuel taxes to subsidize Private and Government Transportation economic development projects contracted out to private parties in a political ruses known today as “Crony Capitalism”.

This fact substantiates the legislative fraud presented as House Bill 5477, which in reality is another tax boondoggle proposal to plunder another billion dollars of OUR Private Wealth which proves the Political Leadership sitting in the Lame Duck Legislative Session in OUR State Senate is willing to mislead not only their fellow members, but all Michiganders. 

Why would the current Majority Leader of the State Senate inclusive of the incoming Majority Leader of the 98^th Legislature’s Senate chamber, in the closing Lame Duck Session of the 97^th Legislature promise to redistribute potentially hundreds of millions of dollars of OUR private Wealth to Detroit’s Democratic Senators’ favorite supporters, Motown Government Contractors? 

What other back room political promises not disclosed to US, the Fuel consuming Michiganders have the outgoing and incoming Senate Majority leaders promised to others to fund Transportation economic development projects?

It has become quite apparent that the Majority Party Leadership in the Senate of the 97^th Legislature and the incoming 98^th Legislature’s Senate Majority Leadership team has shown they have no singular or collective concern for fiscal responsibility, accountability and transparency. 

The Senate Majority Party leadership leaving at the end of the 97^th   Legislature and the incoming Senate Majority leadership sitting in the 98^th Legislative have shown their utter arrogance to Constitutional Limitations and Fiscal transparency.    A Legislatively imposed tax increase is a statutory taking of Life, Liberty and Property.

The State Senate Republican Majority leadership leaving and incoming have collectively shown they prefer to continue the expansion of the twenty principle departments of Government by knowingly choosing to siphon a billion dollars annually from the pockets of Michiganders.

 

This is not a proper way to thank Michiganders for supporting a Republican Majority in Lansing.

 When confronted with shortfalls for known historical misappropriation of tens of billions of dollars doled out to fund Transportation economic development projects for the past thirty-four years, the State Senate Leadership in the Lame Duck State Senate has chosen to continue the same old political arrogance known as Legislative Plunder.

In a 54 Billion dollar fiscal budget for the Fiscal year 2014, there is readily found 20 percent of bureaucratic waste of OUR Private Wealth.

It is time to call on the Lame Duck Session in the House and inform the Republican majority termed out, and those reelected members who plan to sit in the 98^th  Legislature, it is time to close down this billion dollar annual tax scheme by voting down House Bill 5477.   

House Bill 5447 is a Tax Scheme that is based upon a known Political Lie that is presented for one purpose, to siphon off one billion dollars of OUR private Wealth to be redistributed to the Politicians’ chosen crony capitalists!

Mr. Authority, a Progressive Tax and Take program for the ages

Introducing Proposal 14-1, known as “Mr. Authority”, the new local unit of government taxing agency coming to levy your local business on October 15, 2015, unless YOU vote NO on Proposal 14-1!

Only the Progressive leadership in Lansing could enact a statutory provision that taxes tangible personal property by millage, and a 6 percent use tax by a local unit of government, and then boldly claim it ends the Tangible Personal property Tax in the same breadth.

Article IX § 31 requires all TAX INCREASES that shall be imposed by Local Units of Government be put on the ballot to be voted up or down by the electorate.

This is why Proposal 14-1 is constitutionally required to be put on the Ballot on August 5, 2014, for it is plain and simple a Tax Increase to be imposed by a local unit of government under a newly created administrative bureaucracy known as the “Authority”.

This Progressive tax increase Proposal 14-1 originated in 2012 as Public Act 408 of 2012.

Public Act 93 of 2014 is part of this Progressive tax increase presented as Proposal 14-1.

Public Act 90 of 2014 is a trigger used to mislead all Michigander by claiming failure to support Proposal 14-1 will increase the cost of “small business” do to “increased taxation”.

Ask the proponents of Proposal 14-1 to explain the enabling clause of Public Act 90 of 2014:

“Enacting section 1. Section 9o of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.9o, as added by this amendatory act, is repealed if either House Bill No. 6026 of the 96th Legislature, 2012 PA 408, or Senate Bill No. 822 of the 97th Legislature is presented to the qualified electors of this state at an election to be held on the August regular election date in 2014 and the bill presented is not approved by a majority of the qualified electors of this state voting on the question.”

This Proposal 14-1 will NOT REPEAL the personal property tax.  Quite the Contrary Proposal 14-1 enables a new local unit of government the “Authority” to impose tangible personal property taxes by millage value, and by Six percent use tax, each and every year forever more. 

This is a tax increase plain and simple to be imposed by newly created unit of local government.

Proposal 14-1 was first presented as Public Act 408 of 2012 with the assurances that this would end the Personal Property Tax imposed upon tangible personal business property.

Well, Public Act 408 of 2012 was the first of many legislative schemes perpetrated on behalf of Michiganders that was falsely presented as the statutory tool to “End Personal Property Tax”.

 The legislative leadership sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome in Lansing had and has no intention of ending the Tangible Personal Property Tax.  This fact is self evident when you unwind the statutory maze enacted to confuse in the first instance the statutory creation of a new local unit of government whose fiscal objective is for the levying of OUR private Wealth excised from OUR Private Tangible Personal Property by millage, and use tax authority.

  

The legislative fact here is that Public Act 408 of 2012 was the first public act player, known as “Mr. Proposal” to grace this Progressive Stage of political theater that was falsely presented as an end to the tangible personal property tax.

 

Now all the legislative leadership in Lansing needed was the supporting cast of public act players to weave their statutory deception for imposing a new level of taxation whilst claiming all along it was to end the tangible personal property tax.  George Creel was said to have stated, “why tell a little lie when a big lie sounds so much better”.  Enter Proposal 14-1 from stage left, standing as the BIG LIE!

The Second Public Act player to audition for the roll to obfuscate the political deceit of “ending” the Tangible Personal Property tax was Public Act 153 of 2013, known as “Mr. Exemption”.  An exemption does not end a tax program, it exempts a statutorily defined class of participants, whilst imposing a larger taking on those not exempted.

Now entering from stage left, another Public Act Player, the statutorily funded “director for bureaucratic socialism”, whose taxpayer funded local office of government will be empowered by Public Act 80 of 2014, and to be known as “Mr. Authority”. 

Mr. Authority has two supporting cast members; one is the “Authority Council” whose public actors are appointed by the office of the Governor.  The Second cast member is Mr. “Authority” itself which will be the Local Community Stabilization Authority, that sits in compliance to Article 7 § 27 as incorporated in the Michigan Constitution of 1963.

“Mr. Authority” is a new local unit of government created for one singular purpose to tax by millage, and use all tangible personal property found to be excisable within its local jurisdiction.

Mr. Authority moves by first funding its public sector unionized bureaucracy to be known as the Local Community Stabilization Authority who will be enabled to move within their statutorily created jurisdiction to eat out our Sustenance one assessment after another of all private owners of ALL NON EXEMPT tangible personal property.

Now enters another public actor from stage left, Mr. Levy, presented as Public Act 81 2014. 

 

Public Act 81 of 2014 establishes the statutory standing for Mr. Authority to send out its public sector unionized minions carrying the name “Local Community Stabilization Authority” on their letter head to eat out our Sustenance, by aliening all tangible personal property that exceeds $80,000.00 in true cash value for ever more.

 

This statutory fact substantiates the deceptive political ads crossing our Television screens here in the lands of the Wolverine touting Proposal 14-1 will “end” the tangible personal property tax are an outright misstatement of the fact.

Public Act 153 of 2013 was touted as the “end of personal property tax”.  The reality is Public Act 153 of 2013 established an exemption floor, wherein any legal privately owned entity owning less than $80,000.00 true cash value in “tangible personal property” would be exempt from assessment, and alienage for this specific tax.

Now entering from stage left, the statutory triggerman to protect the revenue source known as tangible personal property, which substantiates the legislative leadership never, intends to terminate the tax!

Public Act 90 of 2014 is known as a statutory trigger that stands when Proposal 14-1 fails at the polls.  This stealth public act enactment, Public Act 93 of 2014 substantiates the intent of the legislative leadership in Lansing has always intended to continue taxing tangible personal property whilst bantering about with the support of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce the outright misstatement of fact that they intended to end that specific tax program.

This statutory floor exemption of $80,00.00 enacted as Public Act 153 of 2013 will be repealed when Proposal 14-1 fails at the polls.

 

If Proposal 14-1 passes at the polls, this $80,000.00 exemption stays in place, whilst the newly established taxpayer funded Local Community Stabilization Authority pursues by millage, and use tax all personal property that exceeds the exemption floor amount in total aggregate true cash value used by a PERSON in the day to day business operation to fund first its “Public Business” operations, and secondly to “redistribute” the 25 percent residual to its favorite charities, other Public Agencies.

Proposal 14-1 is a tax increase, as clearly stated in Public Act 93 of 2014 which enables the Authority Council, in concert with the “Authority” to pursue NEW REVENUES.  New Revenues is Progressive double speak for TAX INCREASE.  The “authority” by the by is as defined by statute a newly empowered “Metropolitan Governmental Component” who will send out swarms of new officers to eat out OUR Sustenance.

Public Act 93 of 2014 enabling clauses:

Enacting section 1. This act does not take effect unless Senate Bill No. 822 of the 97th Legislature is approved by a majority of the qualified electors of this state voting on the question at an election to be held on the August regular election date in 2014.

Enacting section 2. The legislature declares that stable local government funding and a tax system that allows individuals, small businesses, and large businesses to thrive and create jobs in this state are priorities of state government. The legislature also declares that all state priorities should be considered in enacting any legislation that has a fiscal impact and that any costs should be managed in a fiscally responsible way. In furtherance of these objectives, the legislature has reduced the state use tax under section 3 of the use tax act, 1937 PA 94, MCL 205.93, and replaced the portion reduced with a use tax levied by the local community stabilization authority on behalf of local units of government throughout this state to provide more stable funding for local units of government than exists today. It is the intent of the legislature to offset the fiscal impact on the state general fund resulting from the reduction of the state use tax with new revenue generated by the assessment levied under this act and with new revenue resulting from the expiration of over $630,000,000.00 in expiring refundable tax credits that were awarded to individual businesses under tax laws enacted by past legislatures.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

 

This is how the Progressive Leadership sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome in Lansing in the 97^th Legislature knowingly misleads ALL Michiganders in their determined effort to live off our Private Wealth for evermore.

This is why Proposal 14-1 is on the Ballot, for the intent of the legislative leadership in Lansing is to IMPOSE a “NEW REVENUE SOURCE” to fund the “Authority” that will levy a tax on Tangible Personal Property starting on October 1, 2015 at 96.1 million dollars.  Then over the coming ten legislative cycles this tangible personal property exaction will increase by 572 percent

In simple turns this Proposal 14-1 is a bold over the top TAX INCREASE that will fund a new level of local government whose singular objective is to send out swarms of new officers to roam about the lands of the Wolverine eating out our sustenance one assessment after another.

Legislative Plunder, Progressive Style

Proposal 14-1 is a proposition to expand the size of Local and State Government plain and simple.  Expanding government comes at a severe cost to OUR liberty.

Proposal 14-1 carries quietly in the background its statutory partner Public Act 86 of 2014 which establishes a new level of Bureaucratic Socialism aptly named in § 7 as the “Local Community Stabilization Authority” and in § 9 the “The authority council”

The “Authority Council” is a gubernatorial commission composed of five appointed commissioners, who are the administrative managers of the “authority”. 

The “Authority” is the “Local Community Stabilization Authority” sitting as an “Independent Metropolitan government” that will send out swarms of New Officers to eat out our Sustenance by imposing and collecting a six percent tax on everything we purchase, and own here in the lands of the Wolverine.

Proposal 14-1 is a deliberated political deception presented fraudulently by the Legislative Leadership in Lansing as a means to continue exacting the Personal Property Tax by authorizing a locally populated metropolitan authority to impose and collect annually forever more, a 6 percent use tax on ALL PERSONAL PROPERTY.

“Sec. 3. (1) There is levied upon and there shall be collected from every person in this state a specific tax, including both the local community stabilization share and the state share, for the privilege of using, storing, or consuming tangible personal property in this state at a total combined rate equal to 6% of the price of the property or services specified in section 3a or 3b. The tax levied under this act applies to a person who acquires tangible personal property or services that are subject to the tax levied under this act for any tax-exempt use who subsequently converts the tangible personal property or service to a taxable use, including an interim taxable use. If tangible personal property or services are converted to a taxable use, the tax levied under this act shall be imposed without regard to any subsequent tax-exempt use. Penalties and interest shall be added to the tax if applicable as provided in this act. For the purpose of the proper administration of this act and to prevent the evasion of the tax, all of the following shall be presumed:”

Proposal 14-1 is stealth legislation pandered about under the false bravado of funding local services. Proposal 14-1 is a tax increase which is why by LAW it is on the Ballot.  This fact contradicts the political advertisements appearing on local Television trumpeting this Proposal 14-1 as good for local business.

This Local Community Stabilization Authority may be established in compliance to Article VII § 27 of the Michigan State Constitution of 1963.

Metropolitan governments and authorities:

§ 27:  Notwithstanding any other provision of this constitution the legislature may establish in metropolitan areas additional forms of government or authorities with powers, duties and jurisdictions as the legislature shall provide. Wherever possible, such additional forms of government or authorities shall be designed to perform multipurpose functions rather than a single function.

Proposal 14-1 does not articulate in the “Ballot Language” that this is a TAX INCREASE, which is the key to this political deception presented to us by a Republican Led State Legislative Chamber sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome in Lansing.

This proposal is being introduced for one purpose, to enable local government to feast on our Private Wealth without restraint by imposing directly a 6 percent tax on OUR personal property purchased to operate OUR locally privately owned small businesses.

This local bureaucracy will send out swarms of new officers to eat out our Sustenance at six percent every year, unless we the Voters VOTE NO on Proposal 1 on August 5!

Invasion

This issue of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) is a politically choreographed event by the current rogue administration occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with overt support of the leadership sitting on both sides of the aisle under OUR Federal Capitol Dome.

This political choreographed invasion of UACs  will be utilized by the Corruptors in the White House as a coercive tool in the coming Lame Duck Congress to pursue what else “Immigration Reform”.

The UACs have been ‘harvested’ to be prepositioned across the States in centers managed under the State's Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Here in Michigan this Office of Refugee Resettlement is hidden within the Department of Human Services, wherein the “benefits”  which is OUR Private wealth will be redistributed by the bureaucrats sitting in the Family Independence Agency.

This program has been in place at the Federal Level since 1980.  Here in Michigan line item funding for this Office of Refugee Resettlement appears quietly in 2009, and now tops 16 million annually funded within the Budget of the Department of Human Services.

This program was enacted into State law by the legislature sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome.  The Governor’s Office is simply executing the statutory return, “Free Federal Money” to house these political invaders apparently around Vassar in the Western Thumb here in the lands of the Wolverine.

This ongoing federal program known as the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) sits in the State under the cooperative hands of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services.  These federal organizations coordinate with such helpful state organizations as The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center (MIRC), Department of Human Services and the State operated Fusion Centers. 

This brings into the equation the Fusion Centers here in Michigan.  The Fusion State Centers are funded under the “State Plan” to coordinate the Federal Police Presence with the Michigan State Police, County Sheriffs and local Police Agencies generally known as the Department of Public Safety.

These UACs are “useful idiots” being manipulated by the usual suspects in Washington, and here in Lansing as a spending tool scheme to formulate an end run around the rule of law, by claiming a Public Health Crisis for these “unfortunate Children.”

The fact is these UAC’s are young adolescents who are drafted recruits for “La Raza”, and other urban gangs throughout North America.  This is an invasion choreographed by the most corrupted regime ever to sit in OUR federal White House and under our Federal Capitol Dome inside the Beltway of Capitol City.

This is all funded with OUR Tax Dollars under Title 8 USCA Chapter 12 Subchapter IV §1522 at the Federal Level, and here in the lands of the Wolverine as a line item in the Budget of the Department of Human Services.

This is not an “uncontrolled event”.  Quite the contrary this is a Machiavellian Scheme created to emulate a “crisis” for the purposes of furthering the corrupted acts of the Leadership sitting under OUR Federal Capitol Dome in Washington on both sides of the Political aisle.

The State Legislature is the arm of government that enacted this nonsense to redistribute OUR Private Wealth through the State Office of Refugee Resettlement.  

The State of Michigan Department of Human Services has been quietly operating this Office of Refugee Resettlement, and only of late with the UACs has it come to light, as to how OUR Tax dollars pay illegal immigrants to live here in the lands of the Wolverine under the guise of “Emergency Assistance”.

The Governor’s Office  here in the lands of the Wolverine is simply implementing the law that was passed by those charlatans hiding in the Shadows of Our State Legislature inclusive of the Fusion Centers, and Office of Refugee Resettlement.  Those who enacted this Progressive fraud are now reaping the political bounty known as  “Free Federal Dollars”.

Federal Dollars that originated from OUR private wealth that are NOW being used to subsidize a choreographed political invasion of our Republic to engender a corrupted Progressive objective choreographed by the usual suspects sitting on the Chamber floors of OUR Federal Congress, and White House.

It is time this electoral season to first oust the Progressives  where ever possible by electing Principle Statesmen to sit on the chamber floors of OUR Federal and State Legislative assemblies.

Then come the opening days of the legislative cycle in 2015, the newly enfranchised legislative officers shall address the corrupted nonsense by repealing the fiscal  authorities that have turned our southern border into a gateway of Progressive deception.

Plundering under the Capitol Dome in Lansing

This latest tax hike percolating in the backrooms of the Legislative Chambers in Lansing, House Bills 5477, and 5493 is not about fixing the infrastructure here in the lands of the Wolverine.   It is all about expanding the spending spiral another 1.2 billion dollars for the coming fiscal year starting on October 1, 2014.

 

There is no need to increase fuel taxes one cent.    

There is a need to repeal Public Act 231 of 1987 where sits the bureaucratic council that will be the recipient of Our PRIVATE WEALTH extorted under the color of House Bill 5477, and 5493 if we allow the Legislative Body to enact this Progressively inspired legislative plunder under the claim of repairing our highways and byways here in the lands of the Wolverine

This is not about a lack of funding for infrastructure maintenance and expansion here in the lands of the Wolverine. 

This is all about shuffling OUR PRIVATE WEALTH extorted under Public Act 119 of 1980, and Public Act 403 of 2000 to shift the increased taxes through offices of the appointed bureaucratic administrators who sit on Transportation Asset Management Council. 

The Transportation Asset Management Council sits under the statutory authority of Public Act 51 of 1951 wherein the bureaucratic administrators will then shift OUR PRIVATE WEALTH extorted under the Motor Fuel Carrier Fuel Act, and the Motor Fuel Tax to capitalize the Transportation Economic Development fund, which is the Progressive program best defined as Legislative Plunder.

These increased takings of OUR private wealth are put within the administrative hands of the Transportation Asset Management Council.  This Council then hands over funds to capitalize the Transportation Economic Development fund, which is known as Public Act 231 of 1987.

Then there is the little known Public Act 160 of 2010 that was enacted to fund the Michigan Education Association full employment centers, known as “Public Schools”.  Public Act 160 of 2010 imposes a Six percent sales tax upon Wholesale Fuel Sales, which is then poured into Foundational Grants to fund benefits, and legacy costs of the labor pool known as “Public Educators”.

The State Legislature should stand up an acknowledge the systemic fiscal fraud, known as Legislative Plunder, dating from 1987, by repealing Public Act 231 of 1987 and Public Act 160 of 2010.  This would leave 100 percent of the current usurious 19 cents per gallons takings to fund highways and byways infrastructural maintenance and expansions here in the lands of the Wolverine.

No, that would be an admission to 63 years of legislative plundering of OUR private wealth under the color of law, something the Progressives NEVER WILL DO!

The current House Bills 5477 and 5493 as amendment by the Senate Chamber potentially increases the legislative plundering of our Private Wealth to fund the Progressive Leadership that dominates both House Chambers sitting under OUR State Capitol Dome Favorite charities, known as Pork Barrel Projects for their Special Interests. 

The Pork Barrel Projects are enabled within the statutorily enacted Public Act 231 of 1987.   The Progressive appointed apparatchiks that sit on the Transportation Asset Management Counsel have been mismanaging our Private Wealth to fund “Public Transportation”, “Public Education” (Benefits, and legacy costs) and to directly subsidize corporations by providing funds for “economic development”. 

Meanwhile since its inception in 1981, the Transportation Asset Management Counsel has mismanaged the maintenance and expansion of our Highway and byway infrastructure herein the lands of the Wolverine.

The best example of the Progressively  funded mismanagement has been self evident these past six years as we have noticed an ever increasing number of Highway Bridges being rebuilt, yet no one in the Michigan Department of Transportation speaks up as to why! Why did those bridges fall apart in less than twenty-five years?  Could it be the low cost bid Union labor intensive contract led to the utilization of inferior road building materials, such as “cement” by the contractors in the 1980’s?

This exposes the real facts behind this clamor of emergency road repairs, which is  the political practiced sleight of hand being moved by the Progressive dominated leadership sitting under our State Capitol Dome in Lansing this very day.

The tax legislation moving currently as House Bills 5477, and 5493, has one political objective, the expansion of governmental spending to fund a political battle to protect the usual suspects who face challenges in this 2014 electoral season.

 The fiscal facts that are ignored by the Political Leadership sitting under Our State Capitol Dome, which are best defined as inconvenient facts, is that there sits this very day, and has sat since the enactment of Public Act 51 of 1951 more than enough fiscal funds to annually maintain and expand the highway and byway infrastructure here in the lands of the Wolverine for the past 63 years.

Our highways and byways sit in the current negligent state due directly to the same political polices that turned Motown into a Ghost Town.  This Progressive Political policy is known as legislative plunder.

Legislative plunder is reliant upon ALL Michiganders to be knowingly misinformed by the very officers of the Public Trust we elected to sit under OUR Capitol dome in Lansing. 

The Speaker of the House and the Senate Floor Majority Leader knowingly choreograph this political charade by organizing the needed votes from both sides of the political aisle to enact the ever expanding takings of OUR Private Wealth to fund their Progressive dreams of Legislative Plunder.

Then on the evening news channel the talking heads come out and champion how all these newly plundered dollars exacted from OUR Private Wealth will fill the pot holes.