A number of lawmakers say they won't give up efforts to repeal Michigan's senior pension tax even if the governor says "no".

“I guess it would not be the greatest news, I would have loved it if he said 'yes' but we negotiate these things and again, I think the governor realizes that he has to work with the legislature to achieve his priorities as well as ours and there is some give and take that happens with that.”

That's Republican Rep. Tom Barrett who also says, “It is fundamentally unfair to tax our retirees in a way that they could not anticipate throughout their working careers.”