House Republican Leader Matt Hall, R-Richland Township, issued the following statement after working recommendations from the governor’s population council were published by MIRS News:

“The population council’s current proposal isn’t even a real plan and has no strategy to grow our population. It’s just a long wish list for new revenues — tax hikes on Michiganders. Tampering with the Headlee Amendment, which protects residents against high property taxes, would be especially harmful. Instead of expanding housing options to bring residents to Michigan communities, hiking property taxes would raise housing costs for homeowners and renters alike. If these high-tax recommendations are the council’s final proposal, it’s dead on arrival in the Legislature.”