Breaking Down the Michigan Ballot Proposals

If you do not have time to do your homework on these, I have laid my opinion of what I believe, as a Michigan Taxpayer, businesswoman, parent and conservative.

Prop 1 Yes– Emergency Managers are needed in Michigan after officials ruined the fiscal soundness of major cities.
Prop 2 No– Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize public union greed, which represent the basis of why emergency managers have been utilized.
Prop 3 No– Ridiculous and insulting proposal by green corporations, trying to create an energy crisis.
Prop 4 No– Absolutely outrageous RINO and Liberal policy to force unionization upon those who care for their handicapped family members.
Prop 5 Yes– Raising taxes in our state should take a 2/3 majority in both the House and Senate. Enough said.
Prop 6 Yes– Absolutely. We must stop our RINO Governor from ignoring the checks to his power. Put the bridge to a vote.

The Michigan Ballot initiatives are about fiscal sanity in Michigan, forcing the 3% of those working for unions to not be able to bankrupt municipalities, stopping greedy green corporations from creating a Michigan Energy Crisis, stopping stealth unionization, making it tougher to raise our taxes, as well as checking the power of our rogue Governor. Every one of them is important, and it is important that we vote on every one.

Proposals 1, 2 and 4 are directly related because of the greed of unions and the power they wield. I am not against unions, I am against public unions from bankrupting cities forcing us to decide if they need emergency managers. It is my opinion that Governor Snyder could have been courageous like Governor Walker was with this issue, but since he wasn’t, it is to put to a vote. Should it be be inserted IN OUR CONSTITUTION that unions in Michigan continue to pilfer from the taxpayers? Not only are Proposals 2 and 4 offensive to those 97% of people in Michigan who do not belong to unions, the language in Proposal 2 prohibits Michigan from becoming a Right To Work State.

Proposal 3 basically is a condescending snub to your intelligence. It forces your utility company to offer 25% of electricity in renewables. Not only will they have to buy more electricity out of state, green initiatives cost a lot of money for little progress. Prop 3 isn’t just a no, it’s a Hell No.

Proposal 5 is self-explanatory. Do you want it to be easier or harder for Lansing to raise your taxes? Harder right? Vote Yes.

A Yes vote on Proposal 6 checks the power of the Governor by We The People. He has acted as a tyrant in regards to the International Bridge project, and must be slapped down in this vote.

I recently attended a presentation by Michael LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, sponsored by the Cheboygan Tea Party. An excellent explanation of sound fiscal policy and warnings of the encroachment upon our civil liberties and loss of personal freedoms was given, and I’d like to thank the Mack Center, Michael LaFaive, and Stephenie from the Cheboygan Tea Party.

The following is a little blurb I asked Stephenie to put together to describe her great group. The presentation I attended was attended by 87 people, and the Mack Center is going all over the state giving these presentations.

Our tea party is nonpartisan. We do not endorse candidates, rather we focus on our three core values of constitutionally limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets. We try to follow the votes of our elected officials in these 3 areas and hold them accountable for their actions. We are focused on educating ourselves about our founding principles and our constitution. We also try through our functions, letters to the editor, and interactions with elected officials to defend principles of liberty wherever possible. I think that many people have forgotten what made America the greatest nation ever. It is up to us to remind them and show them all a free people can accomplish for themselves. We are growing and adding new members all the time. We are not going away. It’s probably enough to make Nancy Pelosi (or John Boehner) cry.

Ha! Thank God for the Tea Party people.