Taking Tax And Spend Policies Right Over The Top

This is, without a doubt, the most insane plan I have heard of in a long, long time. Michigan is facing a serious budget deficit, apparently. The revenue shortfall is over $1 billion and rising. So the Michigan Democrats have come up with a plan to fix everything.

Buy every school kid in the entire state an iPod.

 We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan.

No cost estimate was attached to their hare-brained idea to "invest" in education. Details, we are promised, will follow.

The Democrats, led by their increasingly erratic speaker Andy Dillon of Redford Township, also pledge $100 million to make better downtowns.

Their plan goes beyond cluelessness. Democrats are either entirely indifferent to the idea that extreme hard times demand extreme belt tightening, or they are bone stupid. We lean toward the latter.

We say that because the House plan also keeps alive, again without specifics, the promise of tax hikes.

This could be a late April Fool joke. Because the folks proposing it appear to be just that: fools. What in the world good is it to buy iPods for every kid? What is the motivation, other than the most blatant pandering I have ever even heard of. Even the left cannot possibly support this lunacy, could they? Well, there is at least one on the left who is bloody well pissed at the idiots who came up with this disaster - and it is, very much so, a disaster for the Michigan Democrats. They just shot themselves in the head - forget the foot. The voters will remember this.

This could be a late April Fool joke. Because the folks proposing it appear to be just that: fools. What in the world good is it to buy iPods for every kid? What is the motivation, other than the most blatant pandering I have ever even heard of. Even the left cannot possibly support this lunacy, could they? Well, there is at least one on the left who is bloody well pissed at the idiots who came up with this disaster - and it is, very much so, a disaster for the Michigan Democrats. They just shot themselves in the head - forget the foot. The voters will remember this.

UPDATE: And the avalanche begins:  protein wisdom, Captain's Quarters, Redstate, Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, The Strata-Sphere, Betsy Newmark, Michael van der Galien,

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