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We live within the city of Jackson and pay 1% city income tax to Jackson and my wife also pays ½% to the city of Lansing because of where she works. That is OK, but I would like to question Rep. Schor’s math skills. A person that lives within the city gets 24 hour police and fire coverage. A person working within the city but living elsewhere only gets 8 hours of those same services. They get 1/3 of the service but pay ½ the price? It sounds like they are already over paying. That is unless you use the “vote potential quotient” in the formula. Those living outside of the city don’t get to vote for city officials so you can charge them any rate you want and they can’t vote you out of office. Like most politicians Rep. Schor is using figures to try and make raising taxes sound like a good think. As a politician he may be as good of a liar as the next one, but when it comes to math he can’t get it to add up. If you want to raise taxes just say so and do it. Don’t try to convince us that it is a good thing by using faulty math. GRRRR
"Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge, says the status quo is working well" Read this as "Hey, those poor shleps in Lansing are paying to protect my butt, and I don't want to foot any of the bill myself". Another republican that wants the poor to pay but not the rich,,,really??
I used to work in Lansing, and then I lived and worked in Lansing. I moved, I live in Portage MI. I have the same services I had in Lansing, in fact more and better services and I pay no city income tax nor do people who come here to work. Bottom line Lansing is that you live off the state employees who work there. You try to keep as many state offices in Lansing as you can because it keeps your downtown going, If you moved government buildings and their occupants out of downtown you would have no Lansing or downtown business, The best news for any enployee who has to work in Lansing??? We are moving!!! That means no 125.00 per month parking and no income tax.
So when a business comes into a city,they want tax breaks. But they will require more city services. But who is taxed to give those services? The workers of those businesses! Something doesn't add up here!
I would like to point out that its a Dem. that wonts to raise the taxes and a Rep that thinks a bad idea and we all know that Dems are funded by unions so maybe there,s some push by city unions for Shor to do this ? RAISING TAXES IS ALWAYS A BAD IDEA
Total Taxes paid per month for a family making $75,000 and living in a $100,000 home: Lansing: $280 East Lansing: $240 Holt: $200 Grand Ledge: $182 Mason: $189
Sure, when you ask an individual if the someone else should pay more taxes, they say yes. If you ask me, Rep. Schor should pay 100% of the tax. Taxes are paid for services delivered, the more services, the more taxes. The City is delivering less services!?!?!?
Why don't they put up tool booths and collect a tax on everyone that comes to town to shop too?????? We need term limits and a hour clock with commensurate pay for Lawmakers.........!!!
It is interesting have more citizens and more taxes coming in but they do less per citizen than most small townships and villages. These large cities need to take a conservative approach on running the city to make them run more effeicient. Another corelation is that all the cities that have EFM have city taxes.