After Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s 5th State of the State address on Wednesday, state Rep. Ann Bollin, R-Brighton Township, said in a statement that she had hoped to hear the governor support a relief plan with “immediate, noticeable relief to working families and seniors on fixed incomes have been crushed by inflation.”
“The state is sitting on a historic budget surplus,” Bollin said. “We’re talking billions of dollars. The right thing to do is return more money to the Michigan taxpayers who work hard to earn it.
“I’m worried Gov. Whitmer will do the wrong thing and go on a reckless statewide spending spree,” Bollin said, “but if she does, I will do everything in my power to fight it. People need tax relief now more than ever.”
In her State of the State address, Whitmer called for a repeal of the tax on pensions, which she said will save 500,000 Michigan households an average of $1,000 a year; as well as an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for lower-income workers.
