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Earth Shelter House in Northern Michigan
Stay tuned here to see video of an Earth Shelter complex that Hybrid Homes is building in Northern Michigan. This will be the largest Earth Shelter Project ever built and will be off the grid. We are currently shooting HD video of the process and can be viewed on the web show "The Hybrid Home Guys", which will be posted here soon. You can check out the pilot episode of our trip to Washington State to tour an Earth Shelter home under construction there, by clicking the link below. Click the foll… Continue
Posted on October 9th, 2009 at 9:35pm —
My experience at the RPS Bill signing.
Posted on October 11th, 2008 at 8:00am — 4 Comments
Renewable Energy and How Important It Is. (Original Post from 10/06/08)
Today, I will be at the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) Bill signing near Lansing. This is an important bill because it contains language on net metering and energy efficiency income tax credits. This Bill is about 90 pages long, so if anyone wants to discuss it in greater detail, let me know and we can discuss that also. I was invited by the Governor to attend this historic event because of my leadership in Green Building and Renewable Energy useage in new home concstruction and remodeling i… Continue
Posted on October 8th, 2008 at 11:33am — 3 Comments
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The proposed Michigan FairTax would REPLACE the income tax and current sales tax, with a consumption tax (sales tax at point of retail sale). Under this plan, no more state tax will be withheld from Michigan wage-earners' paychecks. What's more, every Michigan resident-family will receive a monthly "prebate" check, in amount based on family size. This will ensure that NO Michigan family will EVEN BEGIN paying the MI FairTax on goods / services unless, or until, they exceed poverty-level spending.
Under the MI FairTax plan, points of collection are substantially reduced to just retailers, many of whom are already collecting sales tax. Because service providers must account for income tax withholding and compliance costs, their prices carry a hidden tax which a FairTax will make visible. (Business-to-business purchases would not carry the tax, as this would, again, hide the cost of taxation in prices.)
Because of the "prebate" (advance rebate calculated as .0975 x $ [poverty level spending per family size]) to ALL Michigan-resident households, the MI FairTax rate would effectively be 0% on all monthly family spending to the poverty level; thereafter it's 9.75%. A reasonably inferred average effective rate would be ~5.5% (see p.2 of pdf brochure, also review an economic analysis [pdf] on MI FairTax effects prepared by the Hillsdale Policy Group).
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