June 27, 2025 • 4 mins
#podcast #politics #Michigan #WorkingClass #Education #Oligarchy #WealthInequality #Corruption #Taxes #FlatTax #Billionaires #Election2026 #LeftOfLansing
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 27, 2025.
A progressive coalition known as Invest In MI Kids is pushing a proposal to appear on the 2026 Michigan ballot that would end the Michigan's regressive flat tax, and replace it with a 5% surcharge on couples earning $1 million.
The money would be used to help replenish the state's dwindling education funding, which has been hurt significantly thanks to tax cuts for the rich and elite in the state.
And at a time when the working class is suffocating while the oligarchy gains more wealth and power, this kind of a progressive proposal is what the working class needs now more than ever.
Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can!
leftoflansing@gmail.com
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NOTES:
Here's the Left of Lansing "Friday Short" for June 27, 2025.
A progressive coalition known as Invest In MI Kids is pushing a proposal to appear on the 2026 Michigan ballot that would end the Michigan's regressive flat tax, and replace it with a 5% surcharge on couples earning $1 million.
The money would be used to help replenish the state's dwindling education funding, which has been hurt significantly thanks to tax cuts for the rich and elite in the state.
And at a time when the working class is suffocating while the oligarchy gains more wealth and power, this kind of a progressive proposal is what the working class needs now more than ever.
Please, subscribe to the podcast, download each episode, and give it a good review if you can!
leftoflansing@gmail.com
Left of Lansing is now on YouTube as well!
leftoflansing.com
NOTES:
"Group launches ballot initiative to fund public schools by taxing wealthy Michiganders." By Ben Solis of Michigan Advance
"Michigan proposal to tax the rich, fund schools raises questions with business groups." By Anna Liz Nichols of Michigan Advance
"MSU study: Michigan public schools face nation's sharpest decline in state funding." By Virginia Gordon of Michigan Public Radio
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