An intentional crippling of Michigan's economy?

When I first looked at the list of services that are subject to the new service tax, there didn't seem to be any rationale for why some services made it on the list. But upon closer inspection, it appears that many of the services may be on the list as a political bone to the UAW. The automakers utilize many of these services, including carpet cleaning, janitorial services, consulting services, landscaping services, office administration services, and industrial design services. Many of these services are areas where the automakers used to have their own unionized employees performing the services, but these are now outsourced to non-union shops.

Perhaps the UAW's lackeys in the state legislature believe that if these services cost the automakers more, the automakers will hire their own employees to do them. And of course, these employees would be part of the union.