Michigan Votes Forum

Why do you ignorant law makers insist on wasting taxpayer money to rename highways? I wouldn't mind if you paid for it with your own money, but this is a waste of our money.

You people will do anything to deter business in Michigan. The only reason you are doing this is to try to make sure your salaries and benefits are paid to/for you. You care nothing about anyone but yourselves. You and your husband are an embarrassment to Michigan.

I don't understand why only government employees are being forced to contribute to their benefits. We would really save a lot of money (and pull ourselves out of the hole) if our leaders (and retirees) had to pay towards their health care, retirement and other benefits. We also need to stop the large bonuses they get upon retirement, take away their

This should be limited to $25-$50,000 per year. Why should we have to pay for it when you feel like going somewhere? Also, you should pay for your own training, like those of us in the private sector have to.

I think that the automatic renewals should be completely done away with altogether. Companies have already deliberately concealed these auto renewals from us when we purchase something. They are very tricky with this, and tell us that we did agree to the auto renewal when we originally purchased something from them. Too often, they will collect money

Are you crazy? What kind of BS is this? I can't help but feel that Sen. Tom Casperson is proposing this for either friends or members of his own family. It's guys like this that we need to rid our "leadership" of. He has no idea that we are broke both financially and governmentally.

You must be kidding!

They don't waste any time giving our money to their friends. Marleau is so busy that he doesn't have time to answer any correspondence from his constituents. I had sent Marleau two emails (over two months ago) regarding money that the Michigan Treasury Dept. withheld from my tax return. This was a large amount of money to me (almost $800.00

This is a good bill. Thanks for doing something that was indeed necessary, but $10,000 would have been much more practical.

Just what does "miscellaneous changes" entail? It looks like you are trying to leave this wide open for abuse.