MI gov: Proposed tax increases don't go far enough
Posted: 10.07.2009 at 4:12 AM
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(AP) -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm says she doesn't think the tax and revenue increases being proposed in the House go far enough. House Democrats were working Tuesday on a series of bills that would raise more money for the Michigan Promise Grant college scholarship, indigent health care and payments local governments use to support services such as police and fire protection.

Granholm told reporters that the proposals to raise $346 million "don't go as far as I would have wanted them to go." She says the narrowly targeted cuts are "tied directly to programs that people care about."

The Democratic governor last month proposed raising $685 million in new revenue through increasing some taxes and trimming business tax credits.

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