A group calling itself 'Stop City Income Tax' has filed suit to block the proposed Ypsilanti City income tax. The tax, if approved later this year would impose a 1% sales tax on Ypsilanti residents and 1/2% on non residents who work in Ypsilanti.
Claiming the ballot language itself is too vague and therefore not legal as well as claiming it violates Michigan's Home Rule Act, Brian Robb, Democratic council member in the third ward said:
"The city should not be advocating one side of the issue or the other and the city cannot have ballot language that violates state law".
City attorney John Barr, while not addressing the Michigan's Home Rule Act portion of the complaint did say:
"City council believed they weren't hoodwinking the voters".
Uh, yeah, but John, they didn't THINK They were hoodwinking the voters or they KNOW they weren't hoodwinking the voters. Which is it?
The YCD has come out very early on as being opposed to the proposal, the YCD also thinks after Jenny from the Block and the Republicans in Lansing just helped themselves to more of our money, this proposal has a real chance of being pounded should it go before voters.
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