Granholm Says "Michigan has to Inverst in Education"

BY Kaitlin Doyle

Gov. Jennifer Granholm supported extending sales tax to services on March 29, saying Michigan “has to invest in education” in order to move from a manufacturing to a knowledge-based economy.
Granholm said on MSNBC that Michigan has “a big, hairy audacious goal of doubling our number of college graduates.” In order for this to happen, the state would have to stop cutting education spending, which it did this year by $165 per student.
This announcement comes just days after students from 11 Michigan colleges rallied at the capitol in protest of higher education.
Granholm believes money spent on services is “disposable income” and if one spends money on a service that they don’t necessarily need, such as a manicure, they should have a little more money to spend.
Granholm also proposed to drop the sales tax from 6 percent to 5.5 percent. Neither this idea or that of extending tax to most services has made much headway in Legislature.
According to an article from www.WLNS.com, Granholm said these ideas would put $500 million more into public schools and said she is not going to cut education money anymore.