Quote Originally Posted by ordinary View Post
I guess people vote their pocketbooks. I remember Engler in a favorable light because when he was in office, my propery taxes went way down. I know I have saved thousands of dollars.
Sure your property taxes went down, but sales taxes increased 50 percent. Buy a modest $15,000 car and your sales tax went from $600 to $900! Just think about all the stuff you buy in a year. He did several other tax increases too such as the gas tax, it went up 30 percent.

He also bonded the hell out of everything he built. The bonds started to come due in earnest the year after he got out, leaving a huge deficit at the time we were going into a slow-down. But hey at least all of the colleges had new buildings... and the only way to pay for them was to increase tuition.