 we re safe from tax increases a little while longer read her lips  no new taxes  not because she doesn t want them but governor granholm realizes that the legislature will not pass any type of tax increase this year the governor still defended her proposal i think tax restructuring is really important for the future of our state the governor told the free press however she added i understand there is no desire in the legislature to talk about anything with the word tax in it too bad for her that the democrats will most likely take a beating this november in large part because of dear leader in the white house they don t want to risk any more seats in the capitol building in lansing by doing what they really believe in which is shafting the middle class to pass money onto welfare cheats who will vote for democrats but that s good news for us here in michigan because according to the mackinac center  her tax rate increases would have meant 30000 fewer jobs it s temporary relief but in michigan we ll take what we can get  