Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on February 15, 2007

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If a house has been in a family for years it should be left alone, as should any other heirlooms. How about as a statewide community we do the right thing and just eat the cost.

How many times are we expected to pay services rendered? We pay the taxes that provide the Medicaid Program that takes care of the elderly, so now you want us to pay back the money we paid in by taking our inheritances?? You guys must lay awake at night trying to think up new ways to get our money.

The purpose of this proposal is to stop the selfish rich from taxing the poor and middle classes to the fund the rich who artificially impoverish themselves through elder care attorneys. These attorney's and schemes are too expensive for the poor and middle class who can't afford them. The trick is to dump the cost of care for the rich onto the taxpayer. They put huge additions on their homes or buy huge new homes to shelter big gobs of money. Then tax the people to pay for their care. This legislation will stop the typical rip off of the taxpayer to appeal to the special interest eldercare attorneys. I hope we get this legislation!