Here we go again. We’ve noted that several blue states like California, Colorado and New York are debating income tax increases and now Michigan is getting into the “soak the rich” debate.

The lefty group “Invest in MI Kids” is pushing a ballot measure that would raise Michigan’s top tax rate from 4.25% to 9.25%. This would make Michigan the 7th highest tax rate in the country.

Our friend Jordan Bruneau at Great Lakes Policy Institute has found that Michigan schools are already flush with cash with the K-12 school budget rising from $12.7 billion to $21.3 billion between 2011-12 and 2025-26 – a 68% increase. The result? Test scores plummeted:

And enrollment is dropping:

If Michigan wants to “invest in kids,” the very first thing Governor Gretchen Whitmer should do is follow Jared Polis’s lead and allow federal tax credit scholarships to flow in her state.

Every state over the past fifty years that has raised income taxes to fund schools has lost ground on educational achievement and has lost income to other states.

Are “progressives” immune to reality?