Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) asked the state demographer Friday during the Consensus Revenue Estimating Conference (CREC) if killing Michigan's income tax could bring 1 million people back to the state.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Dearborn) and other Michigan Democrats argued Monday that higher costs driven by federal policy and global conflict are erasing any tax relief for working families as Tax Day approaches.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Aric Nesbitt (R-Lawton) became the latest candidate to propose eliminating the state income tax as part of an economic agenda that also calls for making Michigan a Right-to-Work state and creating a special state office charged with weeding out "waste, fraud and abuse" across state government.