Whitmer applauds passage of tax break for working families, seniors

(CBS DETROIT) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer celebrates the passage of the Lowering MI Costs plan that provides a tax break for working families and seniors, but the plan does not include the $180 relief checks for every tax filer as initially announced. The $1 billion plan will roll back the retirement tax, saving 500,000 households about 1,000 a year and quintuple the Working Families Tax Credit, which will return an average of $3,150 to 700,000 residents. "This is long overdue relief for Michiganders after the rug was ripped out from...