Michigan Votes Forum

[quote user="Michiganian"] How can anyone presume that a person who accumulated wealth did not earn it? [/quote] The estate tax is paid by the person inheriting the wealth, not the person who earned it and is dead. Therefore there is no need to presume the person paying the tax didn't earn the wealth, it's a fact. Contrary to those

Let me explain what I "get". I get that weapons should not be allowed in many public venues, college campus' being one. If the idea is to prevent an incident like Virginia Tech, increasing security is a much better and safer way, in my opinion. I also "get" the Second Amendment, but owning and bearing arms doesn't magically

[quote user="Beretta8045"]Our country was outraged when a teen was brutally beaten and sexually assaulted for hours, and none of the people standing around watching it tried to help. If a CPL holder had intervened, would you rather they hadn't, because they were being a "vigilante?" If so, I feel sorry for you and your lack of

[quote user="Beretta8045"]I'm sure many people feel the same way as you--until they becomes the victims of a violent crime. The argument that because you've never needed one, you never will, is naive. There wasn't a mass shooting at Virginia Tech, until April 16th, 2007.[/quote] I was making that particular argument to the previous

I wish you luck, and will contact my senator to urge him to support senate bill 943.

This is a great idea for small businesses. I think the lack of a tax system comment was facetious.

From Justice Blackmun's opinion of the court on Roe v Wade, Jan. 22, 1973: "To summarize and to repeat: 1. A state criminal abortion statute of the current Texas type, that excepts from criminality only a lifesaving procedure on behalf of the mother, without regard to pregnancy stage and without recognition of the other interests involved,

[quote user="kiessling"]Since abortion has been documented to be a procedure in which coercion is a problem[/quote] Where is this documentation? I don't know of any medical procedure that requires a doctor to ask if the patient needing it or requesting it has been "coerced" by someone else to seek it. This is in fact another

These two issues have no relation to one another. This is just an attempt to further an anti-union agenda, and should die a quick death.

After doing an advanced serach, I found the resolution, and it is as suspected an attempt to define a person from the time of fertilization, thus making abortion illegal. The description of the resolution is as follows: Introduced by Sen. Cameron Brown (R) on October 27, 2009, to place before voters in the next general election a Constitutional amendment