Sep 26, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 13 segments
Two Michigan Libertarians. Two races on Lansing’s doorstep. Attorney Jennifer Long is the Libertarian nominee for House District 77. Brandon Crabill is the Libertarian nominee for Senate District 28…
Which tax would you cut first, income tax, property tax, gas, or fees? And why that one tax?
I would say the first and easiest tax would probably, and that's the only reason I would say would be the first, would be the gas tax.
I feel like that would be one that would be really easy to get done and get passed fast.
Yeah, we, we have a neighboring state to our South that's already begun that process.
Awesome.
It says also that you, you are big on property tax cutting there, Brandon.
how would you guys replace the revenue for those taxes and what's spending with it?
So, I mean, that's always the debate, right? It's like when someone hears, oh, we want to cut property taxes and we want to remove income tax, there's the initial fear of what's going to replace those revenues.
And the best way to look at it is really you're alleviating a burden that's creating a lot of turnover in housing that's not creating reinvestment back within this community.
A lot of what we're seeing within the capital area is tougher situations have left a lot of regular people without their homes.
And those homes aren't being really put back into the market at the same rate they're leaving.
And it's also the same idea with a lot of the jobs that have left the capital area around Lansing in particular.
After that, it has been... a shell of itself, you know, a district that used to be primed for entertainment, eating, you know, lots of smaller businesses and people in and out has now essentially become a ghost town.
And I think that's, you know, a microcosm of a lot of other things happening that are still tied back to, again, people losing homes, we're not getting the reinvestment back in these properties are not essentially doing anything.
So you run into some scenarios where you look at certain states where there's not any state that has taken away the income tax and the property tax.
But you have variations as you look through the states like New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, right? There's just differing standards on how they may remove the income tax and they've got a higher property tax or vice versa.
Which tax would you cut first, income tax, property tax, gas, or fees? And why that one tax?
I would say the first and easiest tax would probably, and that's the only reason I would say would be the first, would be the gas tax.
I feel like that would be one that would be really easy to get done and get passed fast.
Yeah, we, we have a neighboring state to our South that's already begun that process.
Awesome.
It says also that you, you are big on property tax cutting there, Brandon.
how would you guys replace the revenue for those taxes and what's spending with it?
So, I mean, that's always the debate, right? It's like when someone hears, oh, we want to cut property taxes and we want to remove income tax, there's the initial fear of what's going to replace those revenues.
And the best way to look at it is really you're alleviating a burden that's creating a lot of turnover in housing that's not creating reinvestment back within this community.
A lot of what we're seeing within the capital area is tougher situations have left a lot of regular people without their homes.
And those homes aren't being really put back into the market at the same rate they're leaving.
And it's also the same idea with a lot of the jobs that have left the capital area around Lansing in particular.
After that, it has been... a shell of itself, you know, a district that used to be primed for entertainment, eating, you know, lots of smaller businesses and people in and out has now essentially become a ghost town.
And I think that's, you know, a microcosm of a lot of other things happening that are still tied back to, again, people losing homes, we're not getting the reinvestment back in these properties are not essentially doing anything.
So you run into some scenarios where you look at certain states where there's not any state that has taken away the income tax and the property tax.
But you have variations as you look through the states like New Hampshire, Florida, Texas, right? There's just differing standards on how they may remove the income tax and they've got a higher property tax or vice versa.
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