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? (Continued from Page 1) 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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