LANSING, MI (AP)-- The battle over Michigan's earned-income tax credit is heating up in Lansing.
Democratic lawmakers in the House and the Senate have introduced proposals to fully restore the state's tax break for low-income earners at 20 percent of a similar federal tax credit. It's now 6 percent under changes approved by Governor Rick Snyder and Republican lawmakers in a 2011 tax overhaul.
House Democratic Leader Tim Greimel of Auburn Hills says the tax break rewards people who chose work over welfare and shouldn't be a partisan issue.
But Republicans say Democrats don't have a plan to pay for the increase, which they say will cost the state about $252 million a year.
