Michigan Votes Forum

This is the right thing to do. You can either take money out of the classrooms, which directly hurts the students, or you have to start looking for other ways to save money in the school systems. Privatization of services makes sense because state Government has no reason to be in the business of driving...

It is imperative that this bill pass. We can no longer afford to allow binding arbitration without any consideration of the ability of the government unit to pay for the decision. We are not talking about workers who have been poorly compensated or taken advantage of but a group of individuals who have...

Are you certain you're a Dem - it's actually a good idea!

I think this is a very good idea as a lot of people do not even have a pension as the company they worked for is out of business. The teachers now have to pay a percentage into their retirement fund. Why shouldn't state employees. I also think the state employees should have to pay into their health...

Nice Ms Tyler, however please put more effort into just repealing the entire 2000 page bohemith that will hurt every American.

You are so on the mark, couldn't have said it better myself!

Would you please include in this Bill state employees who meet the "80 and out" requirement who had deferred their retirement for the following reasons: a) was initially furloughed as Permanent Intermittent (PIs), were later laid off and, after three (3) years were removed from the layoff rolls;...

With all the unemployment and jobs and people leaving michigan, wouldn't it be smarter to remove the income tax and start taxing food? People will always buy food, Michigan will have money to keep going. Why don't we do something good for Michigan instead of making more detramental decisions...

From what I understand about this bill is that it does not cost anything and participation is not mandatory. It simply gives resturants the option of having a dog friendly policy without penalty from the state. I think it's a great idea for helping make MI dog friendly. I think it would be a boon...