Tax idea would crush the middle class

Letter: Tax idea would crush middle class
by Charles Wright | Ypsilanti
Friday May 01, 2009, 11:37 AM
In response to taxing the middle class some more: It seems that the middle class has been on the defense for the last five years.

Now we have state Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith trying to trim the middle even thinner. Auto plants closing through the state. Small and large entities have been disappearing throughout the state, yet Ms. Smith says "The proposal would cost a household earning $50,000 a year more than $500 in additional annual income taxes before deductions."


Why didn't Ms. Smith try to stop the retirement packages for state representatives during June 1997, like what happened to any other state workers who hired in after this date?

Ask Ms. Smith what type of medical package she and her family get when she retires.
Yet teachers, civil-service workers, autoworkers, nurse, etc., will take a loss if this happens.

Alma's sister likes to ignore the law; maybe Alma has joined the bandwagon to destroy families in Michigan because no one is trying to challenge them. Do they think the public is dumb enough to support their ill-will plans of action?

We are the taxpayers who voted them in, but they do not have to worry about a retirement like the rest of the state of Michigan workers. Now they really show what they feel about honest, hard-working Michigan families.

Do these two sisters know what can happen if the middle class collapses?

Or maybe they do not care because they have already padded their pockets.

Where is the money going now, which the state of Michigan was giving in aid to the colleges? Maybe it is time for the both of them to step down.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/05/letter_tax_idea_would_crush_mi.html