MI MSM: It's unfair to make people that pay no taxes actually pay taxes

After Democrats were thrown out of office at all levels here in Michigan due to their dreadful mismanagement, the GOP came in and started cleaning up the mess. Part of that cleanup was in the tax code where pensioners were paying a collective zero in taxes. Cutting checks to people because they happen to own a house was also reduced. In typical fashion, those that hold the microphone in the establishment media call this unfair, as if they have cart blanch over what that means. Peter Luke is one of those class warfare liberals: Michigan's sweeping tax changes affect just about everyone, but maybe not equitably. A couple of snippets:

A couple with three children making $110,000, for example, will absorb a tax hit in 2013 of $190, $549 less than the aforementioned couple making half as much.

Or take a retired couple born after 1952 with $53,000 in income and a $4,000 property tax bill. Next year they lose their entire homestead credit and will pay income tax on every dime of their pension. It adds up to a $3,130 tax hit.

That couple earning $110,000 isn't getting a better deal as Luke is making it out. Fact is, they're already paying far more in taxes. The couple making $55k that he mentioned before essentially was getting a check back from taxpayers for owning a home. For some reason that I can't think of. Nor can Luke. Nor does he even try. The details are apparently unimportant.

And that retired couple? The take the so-called 'hit' because they used to pay an income tax rate on their pension of exactly ZERO! Was a heck of a deal while it lasted, no? In the  minds of liberals, it's unfair to make those that pay no taxes actually pay into the system that they are the biggest users of, while those at the higher end still producing are relatively punished in being forced to pay into a system that they neither use nor need.

Personally, I would have preferred a flat out consumption tax and zero income tax for every Michigander, but the changes in the tax code this year make it better than it has been before, not worse.