Just as in business, you cannot cut your way to sustained success

A two-decade experiment in shrinking tax revenues and government has been an abject failure for Michigan. We have some of the worst infrastructure in the country, our schools are getting worse despite a huge movement toward charter schools, the only new businesses coming into the state are those attracted by the existing auto industry, not the lower taxes. 

The school situation is amongst the most dire. Despite conservatives touting charters which are frequently run by for profit companies like National Heritage Academies, the students of those schools are doing no better on the standardized tests those same conservatives love so much. 

Insanity is often defined as doing the same thing and expecting a different result. The conservative shrinking government plan has not worked here or anywhere else. It's time to move on to something else. ?