I also know budgeting is easy if you do it RIGHT !

single adults with a job have to budget, families and single parents have to budget? why? in order to pay the rent or mortgage, to buy food, pay for insurance of different kinds, etc. etc. If they begin to use credit cards for necessities, pretty soon they are far in debt. Some even have to declare bankruptcy or find themselves homeless. Why can't governments, from local, city, county, state and federal have to do the same? It's simple...write down the NECESSITIES. get them paid for. THEN, if you want to use tax money for a lite rail, or a fancy stadium OK with me....but stop lining politicians pockets and wasting money OUR taxpayer money.

You are all slaves of the Deep State!!
Doesn't matter what you do they are going to get your money somehow.....

Wonderful new democratic governor of Michigan just proposed a new gas tax for road repair. Currently Michigan has a tax of 26 cents per gallon. If approved an additional 46 cents per gallon will be added.This is a 175% tax increase. Opponents are suggesting evaluating where the gas taxes are being spent now before any increase is approved. At present some of the gas tax goes to schools and then government . I went to college in Grand Rapids Michigan and everyone complains because property and gas taxes were high then but Detroit receives a disproportionate amount of the money.

Gasoline taxes should go 100% to road repair and property taxes should be 100% for school support. If Detroit schools need more money Detroit property taxes should pay for. Not force people from Flint, Grand Rapids, etc, to pay for it. This is a way of hiding school cost in other state budgets and forcing people who don't live there or some who don't even live in the state of Michigan to pay for it.

Spread the tax sources around so that no one can really figure out where it's all coming from. In the end it's socialism. Give the government your money and freedoms and the government will imply you will have more security.

Would it be worth buying an electric car just to screw the government? The cars being built today are still nowhere close to where they should be in efficiency, part of this has to do with the limiting of emissions, part of it is not using all technologies available, and part of it is the want for high horsepower and large size vehicles. Even the most efficient pickups and suvs your lucky to get 20 mpg from. And there are a hand full of cars and trucks you can buy with 700+ horsepower just so you can say you've got it.