He said he wasn't surprised that many people would immediately look at the budget in terms of how it affects them. He said he is instead urging people to take a step back and look at how it affects the state as a whole and its long-term future.

Do you really want to go there, Rick?  Sorry, bub, but time is your enemy with your proposed tax hiking, corporate subsidizing, Granholm sized budget.  Long term, your budget does absolutely z-e-r-o for this states' future other than shift burden of a Democrat Governors reign that expanded state spending an additional $1,000,000,000.00 every year.  Highest tax increase in Michigan's history?  Roll down now froze at 4.25%.

Snyder's Feb. 17 budget included a business tax cut of nearly $1.8 billion and a tax on pensions. A survey of state senators by The Detroit News this week shows the pension tax does not currently have enough votes to pass.

Yes!  Go get 'em geezers.  Not that I am for giving passes to anyone, but gottdammit already.  Preying on geezers earned lifeline to subsidize a corporate tax scheme while keeping pet projects and not chopping substantial spending?  Seriously, what a cowardly way for a leader to get its hands on public sector pensions by hitting private sector pensions even harder.

Among the spending reductions in the budget were sharp cuts in revenue sharing money the state sends to cities such as Detroit, as well as cuts to brownfield grants and other tax credits that have spurred certain developments in the Motor City. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing blasted Snyder's budget in his recent State of the City address.

Bing, eh?  Yannow, I really respected him at one point in time but lately all I read anymore about Bing is him blasting everybody.  Hey, Mayor Bing?  GFY.  Denial doesn't change reality.  It's a damned shame people in this state are unwilling to be honest about disciplining Michigans' problem child instead of just pacifying it like it'll miraculously be all better someday.  Fifty years!  F-i-f-t-y  y-e-a-r-s of coddling, feeding, handling with kid gloves, kissing its ass and the City of Detroit has amounted to a monument of poverty, ignorance, addicts, sanctuary for illegals, race hustling and corruption.  Shared sacrifice?  Take down the bird feeder.  The Liberal social experiment failed.

Snyder said today that much of the money cut from cities will be restored to those who enact "best practices" in areas such as employee benefit reform and sharing of services with other municipalities.

Looking at Detroit, "I believe they're on a path to doing much or many of these things," Snyder said.

Much or many?  Oh... that must be the MI-GOP's new saved or created.  Yah Rick, you just keep spinning that "believe" thing to your Democrat base of hopey Hope and changey Change.

But, I will take Rick's advice and step back, give his budget time and look at what it does as a whole.  Uh-oh... troubles on the union front GoverNerd?  I knew this was coming and how could it not.

Lansing-- Chrysler Group LLC would pay less tax than Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co. under Gov. Rick Snyder's tax reform plan, creating an uneven playing field for the Big Three automakers, a Democratic lawmaker charged Wednesday.

And the UAW is smiling because Obama gave them Chrysler, and the Italians merely manage it...

Under Snyder's plan, he would eliminate the Michigan Business Tax and shift to a flat 6 percent corporate tax, but that would be levied only on "C" corporations, which have shareholders.

Yep, that's what geezers pensions are paying for.  Grazie!

"I think if you were to ask Ford and GM if giving them a 6 percent tax and giving a tax break to Chrysler was fair and equitable (they would say it is not)," Rep. Vicki Barnett, D-Farmington Hills, said at a hearing before the House Tax Policy Committee. "It's putting automotive companies that we cherish here on different playing fields."

God bless a Democrat for catching that, but then again, only a tax loving Democrat would.  They see that coerced revenue source as opportunity to buy constituents votes with entitlements.  Anyone care to bet on how long it took for Bob King to call Rep. Barnetts' Office?  Ah, the bittersweet irony of blue air filling Solidarity House on East Jefferson.

But, wait!  It gets better...

Lt. Gov. Brian Calley defended the proposal before the committee, saying Chrysler would be taxed differently than its rivals, but would not be totally exempt.

Oh?

"It's not a matter of whether they get taxed -- it's where they get taxed," Calley said.

Uh-huh...

Companies such as sole proprietorships and Limited Liability Corporations -- which Chrysler is -- would not be subject to the proposed corporate tax. However, owners of such companies would be subject to the state income tax and the companies could possibly have to pay local taxes, as well.

Oh, so then you knew that you were cutting the UAW and FIAT a 1.75% tax break while raising almost $1.5 billion in taxes on others?  Thanks.

Calley said he would not consider placing Chrysler under the 6 percent corporate tax, because "it says we want to return to the double tax."

Holy crap!  It really is hard to believe that the twit that wrote the MBT is now only a heartbeat away from being governor of this state.  I know that if I were Mulally, I'd be telling Lt. "Atomic Bomb" to get his prissy little ass over to the Glass House post hast so I could 'splain some real world facts of life of competing with a taxpayer propped-up Government Motors and a taxpayer gifted UAWs' Fix It Again Tony.

The only salvation that I see for all this is staying on top of the our Legislatures.  Support those that are budget and tax slashers, and let the others firmly know your objections if they choose to roll with Snyder.