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After 350 years, however, methods have finally changed. Or so believes John Engler, the Governor of Michigan. After years of debate about school finance, his state's voters took what may be a historic step. Under Engler's leadership, they replaced property taxes almost completely as a means of funding their 3,286 public schools. Instead, by a 69% majority, they agreed to raise the state sales tax from 4% to 6% and to increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 25 cents to 75 cents. At the same time, they adopted the Governor's proposal to raise...
...level, the vote was simply the latest machination in Michigan tax politics, which resembles nothing so much as a billion-dollar game of chicken. Engler, a Republican, won the governorship in 1990 by less than 1% after promising in the campaign to cut property taxes 20%. His attempts to do so -- and to replace the revenues by increasing the sales tax -- were rejected by the voters until last summer, when state Democrats, in an apparent act of political grandstanding, proposed to do away with education-funding property taxes without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers...
Reduction, redistribution republicanism. Not "three r's" that are usually associated with education reform. Yet in Michigan Republican Gov. John Engler seems to have done the politically impossible raise statewide taxes in order to improve the quality and equitablity of the state's education system with the approval of 70 percent of the voters...
...Engler and the votes of Michigan have taken a large step in remedying the age-old problem that many poor children are doomed to a dismal education simply becaue of the lack of equity in their parents' abodes. The plan isn't perfect, but it provides a workable model for other states dedicated to the future of their children...
...rushed to Governor John Engler's desk last week, which would temporarily ban physician-assisted suicide until a commission can make a recommendation, is aimed directly at Kevorkian. But the doctor says it makes no difference to him if Michigan's elected representatives turn him into an outlaw. "He has told me that even if this does become a law, he would violate it," says Fieger. The problem is that once zealots claim the right to choose which laws they'll obey, all the underlying trust that permits professionals, and especially doctors, to function disappears...