Michigan Votes Forum

This is the kind of thing that gets Michigan disqualified from grant money at the outset. Everyone was sure we would get through this time and we didn't even make it past the first round. How in the world can a Teacher Contract--gov't employees--EXCLUDE evaluations? That should be grounds for...

Ipmmb22: It’s not a teacher thing, the fact is that the MEA is trying to get something for their members but they either refuse, miss, don’t care to contemplate the long term costs. To complicate matters most legislators couldn’t balance their own checkbooks much less contemplate the...

That's been the problem all along, there may have been very short term savings but they are overwhelmed by the cost of providing not only the boosted benefits (be they at 2X or 1.5X) but having to amortize the existing (and growing) unfunded liabilities. Remember, the pension fund carries over $30...

This bill carries a net ANNUAL COST of $500 million to $660 million. That's a net cost (savings minus expenses). This data is from the non-partisan House Fiscal Agency! There is no arguement about what happens if this bill moves forward - it will COST over 1/2 a billion annually! These are facts...