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...Ohio's Richard Celeste and Michigan's James Blanchard are in trouble over their own economic programs. Although they sidestepped the issue of tax hikes during the campaign, both new Governors quickly made taxes a top priority in order to combat their states' mounting budget deficits. Blanchard estimated Michigan's deficit at $900 million, and Celeste projected a $528 million shortfall...
...Ohio, Celeste made permanent a temporary 50% personal income tax hike passed by former Republican Governor James Rhodes and, on top of that, steered through a 40% increase. Blanchard last spring engineered a 38% Increase in personal income tax, with provisions for a partial rollback...
Repeal Cheerleader Topper denies that Governor Celeste is the hidden issue. But in Michigan Blanchard is clearly a target of the antitax movement. It started when John Lauve, a GM engineer, sent "the shirt off his back" to the statehouse in Lansing last March to protest the 38% tax increase. His gesture inspired other Michigan voters, and soon a "Recall Blanchard" movement was launched. Within weeks, petitions were circulating across the state to gather the 760,000 signatures necessary to call a special election. Although Lauve and his followers missed the mark, they did get 522,000 names during...
Petitions are also being circulated to remove state legislators who voted for Blanchard's tax package. There is a fledgling lobbying effort, similar to the one in Ohio, to put on the November 1984 ballot an amendment to the state constitution that would roll back the tax levels to those that existed on Dec. 31, 1981, and require a four-fifths approval of the legislature to pass any new taxes...
...Search of Excellence, Peters and Waterman (1) 2. The One Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson (2) 3. Megatrends, Naisbitt (4) 4. Creating Wealth, Allen (3) 5. Out on a Limb, MacLaine (5) 6. Tough Times Never Last, but Tough People Do!, Schuller 1. Seeds of Greatness, Waitley (8) 8. Nothing Down, Allen (9) 9. Working Out, Hix (10) 10. Growing Up, Baker