How do you take a state with a sluggish economy and make matters worse? If you’re Michigan’s AFL-CIO, you ask politicians to raise taxes and increase the size of the bloated government:

The Michigan AFL-CIO enters the Labor Day weekend pushing for a tax increase to support state government services, and promising to help lawmakers who might face recalls for voting in favor of revenue increases.

As a Brit might say, that’s a capital (killing) idea!