Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on June 25, 2008

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Let the fleecing begin!!! Yes, this sounded like a good idea to money hungry tax-and-spend legislators when property values were only headed upwards. But now the bottom has fallen out of real estate values, which will mean that TAXPAYERS / HOMEOWNERS will save a BUNDLE due to free-falling property values. So what do our "fine" legislators do? Tighten their belts? Schmooze new businesses to set-up shop in Michigan? Take a pay cut? NO! They want to STICK IT TO THE TAXPAYER!!! Yea, forget that nasty "pop-up" that will save you hundreds -- maybe thousands -- and just GIVE YOUR MONEY TO US. Yeah, right! This is CRAP and should die a slow, painful death locked endlessly in some dead-end "committee." Bring it back in 20 years when property values recover. :D

I heard just about enough of this BS that republicans are in the pockets of Big Business. BULLSHIT! Who wants to re-regulate the utilities MI so they don’t have completion and can just jack your rates anytime they damn well feel like? The Democrats do…………… Who favors teacher unions paying twice as much for benefits to BCBS? The Democrats do…………… Who wants to tell you - you have to buy all low power light bulbs for your house thus making Phillips and all the other bulb suppliers a huge profit? The Democrats do…………… Who gives HUGE tax incentives to Hollywood’s Hoodlums to make movies here? The Democrats do…………… Who would rip the money right out of your wallet to give to some “green” company for a “global warming” situation nonsense farce? The Democrats do…………… Who wants to add more taxes to an already intolerable fuel prices but won’t let us drill on our own land or won’t let us build nuke plants to take some of the pressure of while allowing billions of our $$ into the countries of our enemies? The Democrats do…………… Who is always caught taking huge sums of money from corp. America thru some scam deals? The Democrats! Who have the most off-shore non taxed bank accts (Clintons have 50 mil just themselves) that are pilfered from corp. America and the working citizens? The Democrats do…………… Who favors TAKING your private property, forcing you out and then giving it to some private developer for “public good” The Democrats do…………… NOW THIS! Now that the values are dropping, they have to change the rules to make sure THEY DONT LOSE ANYTHING! BUT WE WILL! Who favors this??? THE DUMOCRAPS! So shut the hell up! Idiots!

Currently there is no incentive to do anything. Banks are forced to pay non homestead taxes on forclosed homes and the cities/state love it. So they sit vacant and deteriorate. I have one behind me and it looks like crap (in a $400,000+ neighborhood) that has been sitting 2 years. Some will say we asked for it when we voted. We also asked NOT to have casinos in Detroit 3 times and look what happend. They can and will sell us anything they want to pass. This was a bill of goods and they know it by passing amendment after amendment changing the rules with exception after exception. Bandaid after bandaid. Forclosures will be a windfall for the tax collectors in this state until the banks throw in the towel.

This does absolutley nothing to increase home sales. The disconnected Congress wants to tinker with the Constition again and tell us it is for our own good. Just so much BS from the idiots we elected. The milliionares in Lansing will never learn!!

The only candidate I have seen or heard from that is making any sense this year is John McCain. I usually vote for the most qualified person, regardless of party, and usually lean Democratic. However, I am so disgusted with Jenny and Barak, and others like them, that I have had enough. They have done absolutely nothing to demonstrate to me they have what it takes to be leaders on anything. And I was so turned off by the primaries during the winter when they tried to move up (the Republicans did, too), only to find themselves penalized for failing to follow party rules. And guess what? Michigan's primary would have been much more relevant if they had stayed put. I jumped ship in 2000 to vote for McCain, and am doing so again this year. I like his thoughts on health care that is both universal, but also flexible enough that people can have some choices in their care. He rightly states that only the patient and doctor should be the final decision makers. I like his idea of a combination of free-market / government sponsored programs. He is the only one who sees what I see, that a government-run universal health care system is doomed to failure. As for the mortgage crisis and gas crisis, I think McCain is on the right track with his ideas on energy policy. Problem is that people like Jenny cannot see it this way. I do favor any effort to provide alternative sources of fuel, and we are slowly doing that. However, in the meantime, we need to do something to find relief from high mortgage rates and fuel costs. And we also need to find a way to bring jobs back to Michigan. We are killing ourselves by being the state that Dick DeVos said in his election ads that "leads the nation in moving vans".

But endorsing mccain is just more of the same. he's all proud of his cap-and-trade energy idea that will add a huge new layer of bureaucracy to the federal gov't. he's all proud of his campaign finnce reform even now after it has been rightly categorized as the first major infringement on the first amendment right to speech. oh yeah. mccain is surely the answer to our problems just like a blow torch is the answer for a bad case of hemhorroids.

I'm so tired of all the scams the government at every level does involving stealing my money. Quit spending like drunken politicians! Quit promising anything and everything to everybody! Start cutting spending. Start cutting taxes. Start cutting programs. We are NOT a socialistic country. If you like socialism so much...move to a socialistic country. There's plenty of them on this planet to choose from. According to the Constitution (anybody remember what that is?)the government is suppose to be very LIMITED in its scope of operation. "...promoting the general welfare.." does not mean "...providing the general welfare"...! The government's main duties are to "...provide for the common defense..." and ensure my ability to achieve "...life. liberty and the pursuit of happiness...". Why in the world does anyone think that the government, the most ineffective, wasteful, corrupt machine known to man, is going to solve our problems. The government CREATES more problems than it solves. It's their way of maintaining job security I bet. Everyday I see my liberties, my rights and my money vanish because of the work of governmental villains at every level. I've had it!! My money belongs to me! It's MINE. It doesn't belong to the government, not the mob rule majority, not to the voters who want all their socialistic programs and services. If you want all those services and programs, open YOUR wallet and YOU pay for them! Why do I constantly have to go without things I need and want to improve my life in order for the government to improve other people's lives...at my expense! My taxes should be paying for very limited, basic government services. That's it. This "Jabba the Hut" mentality and philosophy needs to stop now! LEAVE ME AND MY MONEY ALONE!!