Page 14-Friday, January 13, 1978-The Michigan Daily
Milliken asks tax cut
in annual message
TAX CUT REQUEST SEEN AS CLUE:
Is the Governor running?
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House chamber, applauded him.
One of them, Raymond Snider of
Mason said 'he believes Milliken is
"Trying to do everything he can: It
will take time to work this out to meet
farmers' demands for higher prices
and we know this."
"It sounds like he's real interested
and wants to help us but there's not
much he can do," said Gary Brod-
beck of Lake Odessa.
However, Dale Walter of Saginaw
complained that Milliken "never did
say anything about farmers paying
most of the real' estate tax in
Michigan."
James Hutton, a Scottish geologist,
proposed the law of superposition in
1785. This fundamental principle
used to determine the relative ages of
rocks states that whenever uncon-
torted layers of rocks are exposed,
the bottom-most was deposited first
and hence is the oldest, with each
succeeding layer deemed progres-
sively younger.
UPI News Analysis
Governor William Milliken's State of the State
Address to the Democrat-controlled legislature yes-
terday was remarkably low-key and conciliatory-
considering that 1978 is an election year.
Although aides to the governor said there were as
many as 100 new proposals included in the message,
Milliken's agenda for this year contained few daz-
zling new ideas. It was, more of a renewal of
proposals he had offered before.
Milliken has not yet announced whether he will
seek re-election this year and his comments shed
little light on which way he is leaning.
"I have enjoyed and continue to enjoy this job that
I have and the opportunities that I have to work with
you. The years have been very good to me and, I
believe, the state," he told lawmakers.
"This is the 10th State of the State message that I
havemade from this podium-it could be my last. I
am proud of the accomplishments of nearly one full
decade that we have served."
Those might have been the words of a man con-
sidering a retreat from public life, except for one
point: he called for an $85 million tax cut, and tax
cuts have a curious way of cropping up during elec-
tion years.
Milliken himself conceded that the tax relief
package would not be particularly significant to the
individual taxpayer.
For example, his proposal to hike the personal in-
come tax exemption from $1,500 to $1,600 actually
translates into a yearly savings of less than $5 per
person.
Butthe fact is, voters are taxpayers and tax-
payers like tax cuts-regardless of how small. It
can only be a plus for the person who initiates it.
Milliken's tax relief package was well
engineered, because it is small enough so that
Democrats will have a hard time voting against it.
The governor insisted his tax proposals, which
also included home heating assistance and property
tax relief for the elderly and handicapped, were not
politically motivated.
"I have emphasized in previous messages to you
that it is just as important to lower taxes when
possible as it is to raise them when necessary," said
Milliken, who fought this summer against a
scheduled rollback in the income tax.
It is possible because the governor's budget chief,
Gerald Miller, says there was a $68.4 million surplus
in the state budget at the close of the 1976-77 fiscal
year.
Democrats conceded that they may have no
alternative than to approve Milliken's tax program,
because it cannot be attacked on the grounds of
fiscal irresponsibility and, as Senate Ap-
propriations Committee Chairman Jerome Hart
said, there will be pressure "from back home."
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