SJF 2001.02.28 Change hide to no parameter. May Not turn on the first menu, nor turn off the last menu. A condensed version of this article was released as a Mackinac Center Viewpoint . Government never has enough money and the people who earned it always have too much. When times get tough, it s the government, not the people, which should be taken care of first.
Government spending is never a problem, but undertaxation is an ever-present danger.
Of course, I m being facetious. I m also a little annoyed that at both the federal and state levels of government, it seems that most pundits and lawmakers alike are always more concerned that they might not be taxing enough than that they might ever be spending too much. Republicans and Democrats in Washington and Lansing reveled in a spending porkfest last year and now some of them are worried that perhaps hard working, taxpaying citizens aren t coughing up enough. Let s recall where Michigan was barely a decade ago. The economy was mired in stagnation, with unemployment chronically above the national average.