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Friday, October 28, 2016 MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call Report
Gas tax increase, more college building debt, 'culpable mental states," liquor oligopoly and midwife licensure
The Legislature did not meet this week, so the Roll Call Report continues its review of key votes from the 2015-2016 session.
House Bill 4713, Require "culpable mental state" for criminal conviction: Passed 106 to 0 in the House on October 1, 2015
To establish a presumption that if a law does not indicate whether a culpable mental state ("mens rea") is required to establish guilt for a crime, then this is required (subject to various specified exceptions). This means prosecutors must show that a defendant violated the law "purposely, knowingly or recklessly." Currently, many complex administrative offenses authorize criminal penalties for actions that a regular person would not know are illegal.
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Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4713, Require "culpable mental state" for criminal conviction: Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on December 15, 2015
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4095, Authorize more college & university building debt: Passed 103 to 1 in the House on December 3, 2015
To authorize $51.3 million in new government spending for several state college and university construction projects. The bill would cause the state to increase its own debt burden by $33.1 million.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4095, Authorize more college & university building debt: Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate on December 15, 2015
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4738, Increase gas and diesel tax: Passed 55 to 52 in the House on November 3, 2015
To increase the 19 cent per gallon state gasoline tax and 15 cent diesel tax to 26.3 cents per gallon starting in 2017.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4738, Increase gas and diesel tax: Passed 20 to 18 in the Senate on November 3, 2015
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4736, Increase vehicle registration tax: Passed 54 to 53 in the House on November 3, 2015
To increase the annual vehicle registration (license plate) tax by 20 percent per vehicle, and impose a surtax on electric and alternative fuel vehicles whose owners don't pay gas tax.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4736, Increase vehicle registration tax: Passed 20 to 18 in the Senate on November 3, 2015
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4321, Restrict warrantless residence searches: Passed 83 to 22 in the House on October 28, 2015.
To establish that a law enforcement officer may not search a residence without a search warrant if a resident expressly objects, even if another resident consents after the objector is no longer physically present. This would not apply if one resident is the victim of a crime committed by another resident, or if there is imminent danger to people, a suspect may escape or evidence may be destroyed. The Senate has not voted on this bill.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 5023, Establish more "dark sky preserves": Passed 88 to 18 in the House on November 10, 2015
To designate the Rockport State Recreation Area, Negwegon State Park and Thompson's Harbor State Park as "dark sky preserves," which means state authorities must restrict outdoor lighting to only that needed for safety, security or reasonable use and enjoyment.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 5023, Establish more "dark sky preserves": Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate on February 3, 2016
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4581, Increase state payments to liquor distribution oligopoly: Passed 102 to 4 in the House on October 8, 2015
To increase from $7.50 to $8.25 the per-case fee that the private company or companies granted a state monopoly to warehouse and distribute liquor to retailers can collect from the state as a "reimbursement" for its distribution costs. This will increase annual payments to these private companies by some $10 million annually.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4581, Increase state payments to liquor distribution oligopoly: Passed 36 to 2 in the Senate on December 15, 2015
The Senate vote on the bill described above.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4598, Impose licensure on midwives: Passed 79 to 25 in the House on December 3, 2015
To impose a state licensure mandate on midwives, including regulations and a $200 annual license fee. The Senate has not voted on this bill.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
SOURCE: MichiganVotes.org, a free, non-partisan website created by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, providing concise, non-partisan, plain-English descriptions of every bill and vote in the Michigan House and Senate. Please visit http://www.MichiganVotes.org.
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Labor Reform Efforts Still Big Issue In Michigan, Across Country
Mackinac Center experts recently in the news
Workers deserve a choice not only when it comes to union membership, but also in whether they will work under a union-negotiated contract.
F. Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, and Jeremy Lott, an adjunct scholar with the Center, wrote about Rep. Gary Glenn's new Worker's Choice bill in an op-ed published by the Midland Daily News. House Bill 5829 would give Michigan's government employees the freedom to pay dues to a union and allow it to bargain on their behalf, or not pay union dues and negotiate directly with their employer.
Labor leaders might not like such a setup, but if the bill were enacted, their legal and crocodile-tear complaint against "free riders" (who are more like "forced riders") in Michigan's public sector unions would go away.
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Rank-and-file members may already be far ahead of their leadership in understanding the basic fairness of Worker's Choice. In one national survey, almost 70 percent of union members polled thought those people who don't wish to pay union dues ought to represent themselves.
They reference Flint teacher Stephen Hall, who wants the freedom to negotiate a contract that fits the unique needs of his family, rather than accept the one-size-fits-all terms negotiated by the union.
Employees and unions in South Dakota would also benefit from a Worker's Choice law, though a bill has not yet been introduced there. Instead, unions are pushing a convoluted ballot measure to undermine right-to-work and force people to pay for representation, even if they'd rather work directly with their employer and negotiate their own terms. Lott and Vernuccio wrote about the situation in the Washington Examiner:
Forget for a second that unions pushed for the current laws that give them a monopoly on bargaining in unionized shops. It may not be ideal that unions should have to negotiate for workers and not get paid for it. It is incredibly unfair to workers to not be given a choice in the matter.
In other labor-related news, Vernuccio recently spoke with WJR's Frank Beckmann about the attempts to unionize student athletes, and Lott wrote in The American Spectator about a union's misguided focus on the Black Lives Matter agenda rather than a potentially jobs-killing tax proposal.
Read the full op-ed in the Midland Daily News here.
Read the full op-ed in the Washington Examiner here.
Listen to Vernuccio's interview with Frank Beckmann here.
Read Lott's full op-ed in The American Spectator here.
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Climate Activists Endanger Lives by Tampering with Pipelines
As winter approaches, fossil fuels keep us warm
It is getting more crisp and cool in the morning. In Michigan, we're getting back into the habit of scraping the frost off of our windows before we get in the car and head to work. We're also remembering the location of the thermostat in our homes so we can take the chill off the morning temperatures.
For most, that heat, which we expect from our furnace, is brought to us courtesy of natural gas or propane, both of which are transported through the pipelines that crisscross this continent. As the cold deepens and we move into winter, having the ability to simply flip a switch or push a button to heat our homes not only improves our daily lives, it literally saves lives.
But the actions of self-styled climate activists would keep that essential energy — and the warmth and security it provides — from Michigan residents. Working around their rallying cry of "keep it in the ground," a few of these activists are so convinced that we must stop using these fuels that they are willing to forcibly block access to them for Michigan residents. They are moving beyond peaceful protest and political involvement to what they call "direct action" — an increasingly in-your-face style of protest that often involves threats or the actual destruction of industrial equipment, access structures, etc. "Direct action" replaces negotiation when special interest groups want to compel an immediate change in policy.
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These protest groups defend their actions, claiming that time is too short, the issue is too important, or that they have exhausted all other political and protest options. Their statements assert that their only recourse is to "step outside polite conversation," and use direct action to "shut it down." While they will typically stress that their actions are meant to be nonviolent, in the case of one recent climate-related direct action, the potential for danger, or catastrophic results grew exponentially.
On October 11th, a group of climate activists, calling themselves Climate Direct Action, spread themselves across the country in Washington, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota. The groups, made up of one activist and one supporter, forced their way through security fencing at pipeline facilities belonging to Enbridge, Inc., TransCanada Corp., Kinder Morgan Inc. and Spectra Energy Corp. After filming statements justifying their actions, they cut the chains and locks protecting pipeline safety valves and turned off the flow of oil.
Other, better known, environmental groups applauded the efforts. In one statement, Greenpeace Energy Campaign Director Kelly Mitchell even went so far as to threaten further action. "Greenpeace supports the brave activists who peacefully shut down all 5 tar sands pipelines into the US ... If our leaders won't take action to protect people and the planet, the climate movement is willing and able."
Enbridge officials responded by first recognizing the rights of people to comment on energy issues. However, they drew a line at what they called "pipeline tampering incidents." Enbridge spokesperson Jason Manshum described the group's "attempt to tamper with energy infrastructure" as "reckless and dangerous," noting the possibility for a pipeline failure or explosion as a result of the tampering.
"The groups involved in this ... claim to be protecting the environment, but they do the opposite and put the safety of people at risk — including themselves, first responders and neighboring communities and landowners." Manshum went on to say that Enbridge would, "support the prosecution of all those involved."
The actions of Climate Direct Action against two Enbridge pipelines — Line 4 and Line 67 — hold direct significance for Michigan residents. Both pipelines run from Alberta, Canada southeast to Superior, Wisconsin. Line 5, the pipeline that supplies Michigan with 540,000 barrels per day of light crude oil for refineries and natural gas liquids (in many cases this is propane) begins in Superior. If the oil flows to Superior were successfully stopped, the oil and propane flowing through Line 5 could also stop.
What the "shut it down" forces don't tell Michigan residents is that Line 5 provides the Upper Peninsula with 65 percent of the propane Yoopers use to heat their homes and cook their food, and 55 percent of the propane used statewide. The approaching winter paints, in stark colors, the vital reality that we need a reliable, affordable source of energy to heat our homes and places of work. While we recognize there are risks associated with the transportation and use of gas and oil, the benefits that we all enjoy — reliable and affordable electricity, transportation and heating fuels, to name just a few — far outweigh those risks.
It is one thing to speak out about potential risk, to peacefully take part in the political process, and to work to make changes in energy and environmental policy. It is another thing entirely to deliberately endanger lives and communities because you refuse to wait for your worldview to be implemented. The direct actions of groups like Climate Direct Action damage the integrity of the political process that we rely on to set reasonable energy policies. Their actions against energy infrastructure also make the risks associated with the use of oil and natural gas far worse for both people and the environment.
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Michiganders Want Electricity Choice But Bill Would End It
Op-ed published in Bridge Magazine
Michigan residents and business owners need more choices when it comes to electricity, but a bill making its way through Lansing would put an end to the limited options that currently exist.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy's Director of Environmental Policy Jason Hayes and adjunct scholar Ted Bolema wrote about the impact Senate Bill 437 would have in an op-ed published by Bridge magazine. Despite supporters' claims that the bill would not affect consumers who use Michigan's limited electricity choice program, Hayes and Bolema cite a report from UBS Financial Services that found electricity choice would "whither organically under the law."
So the big utilities stand to make a substantial profit if choice "withers." But Michigan energy users have repeatedly stated in public polling that they value electricity choice and would like to see it expanded. In one 2013 poll, 82 percent of Michigan residents supported electricity choice. A 2016 poll showed that 66 percent supported expanding electricity choice beyond the current 10 percent limit.
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According to state data, more than 11,000 electricity customers were waiting to join the choice program in December and one in four residents said they would buy electricity from an alternative supplier were they allowed to do so.
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An Opportunity to Improve School Funding Equity?
Pushback against federal regulation should not preclude local reform
A resolution pushing back on proposed new federal guidelines for education funding received broad bipartisan support this week in Lansing. Where a top-down mandate meets resistance, local initiative could pick up slack to address the underlying issue.
MLive reports that State Superintendent Brian Whiston testified Tuesday before the Senate Education Committee against a regulation introduced by the U.S. Department of Education to implement the new Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA. The regulation would require local districts to demonstrate that low-income schools are funded at least on par with their wealthier peers before federal Title I dollars are released.
In other words, districts should be using designated federal funds for high-poverty schools to "supplement" state and local dollars, rather than to "supplant" or backfill their budgets.
Resolution sponsor Sen. Phil Pavlov says schools don't need another federal mandate, a view that deserves sympathy. Michigan Association of School Administrators executive director Chris Wigent suggested the proposed rule is a solution in search of a problem. But it's not clear that districts generally direct dollars to their schools in an equitable manner.
School districts with more low-income students already are rewarded with substantial federal dollars, resulting in greater total funding for them compared to schools in nearby wealthier neighborhoods. For example, in 2014-15, Detroit Public Schools and Ann Arbor Schools received about the same amount of combined local and state funding per student. But add in Detroit's $5,125 versus Ann Arbor's $300 in federal revenue per student, and the comparison greatly changes.
Under Proposal A, Michigan has established a broadly equitable funding floor at the district level. How dollars filter down from the central office to local schools can be much harder to see, though. Most school-based funding is tied to district programs and staffing formulas, with funding at each school largely determined by employee seniority rather than student need.
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Consider the Detroit Community School District, where the Title I federal funding proposal would have direct impact. How much resource equity exists between Fisher Lower Magnet Academy near Gratiot and 8 Mile, where 99 percent of kids are low-income, and the University District's Bates Academy, with half the student poverty rate?
An increasing number of school districts nationwide have been moving toward systems that distribute significant shares of funding to schools based on student characteristics. Such systems are referred to as "student-based budgeting," "weighted student funding" or "backpack funding," because the money (figuratively) goes with the child's backpack to the place where he or she is served.
The benefits of the practice include more transparent allocation of dollars and more flexibility for principals to prioritize financial decisions that directly impact their student body. And though no decisive impact on learning has been found, the Reason Foundation observes that greater student-based budgeting allocations are highly associated with closing academic achievement gaps between students of different races and socioeconomic groups.
The challenge of pursuing this strategy comes in training principals and other staff, and in upgrading financial systems and tools. But since many larger urban districts have gone down this path, the learning curve for a willing Michigan district would not have to be so great.
The proposed federal mandate has caused many state officials and interest groups to recoil, perhaps for good reason. The strings that come along with D.C. dollars and noble intentions can undercut effective local solutions.
Yet a district like Detroit, in dire straits and looking for a fresh start, ultimately would benefit from empowering local school decisions and from distributing dollars in a fairer, more transparent manner. The question is whether the lift would be too heavy for local leaders to accomplish.
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State Health Policy Toolkit
10 reforms state lawmakers can implement now
Michigan and other states are actively competing to become medical tourism destinations. Whether they succeed depends in large part on opening the state's medical care delivery systems to competition and innovation and tearing down current protectionist barriers. These same reforms will make health care better and more affordable for our own residents too.
What steps are necessary to make this vision real?
Naomi Lopez-Bauman is director of healthcare policy at the Arizona-based Goldwater Institute and adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. She has identified what's needed to bring it about, which the nationwide State Policy Network assembled into a new "toolkit" called "Ten Reforms State Lawmakers Can Implement Now."
Here's a quick summary. The full report offers clear explanations of the specific problems we face and how to address them.
1. Establishing Accountability and Transparency in Government Programs
Problem: Government programs to expand insurance coverage including the Affordable Care Act have added layers upon layers of bureaucracy and are often ineffective, inefficient and duplicative, not to mention unaccountable to both patients and taxpayers.
What Michigan Can Do: Before adding any new programs, start by auditing the ones we already have — state, federal and local — to identify who they are supposed to help and how much of the money actually benefits individuals. Then determine how these resources could be used to better meet the needs of those who need help the most.
2. Regain Control of the Health Insurance Market
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Problem: Under the ACA states lost control of seven key insurance regulation factors for the individual market, including obtaining and keeping coverage; its cost; coverage mandates; cost-sharing limits; provider requirements and patient protections. Repealing the ACA will not affect these unless state laws are also changed here.
What Michigan Can Do: Lawmakers should review how the ACA was implemented here by state agency actions or new laws and prepare legislation now to take back control if the ACA is repealed.
3. Verifying Medicaid Eligibility
Problem: The number of Medicaid enrollees is skyrocketing, and many who may not be eligible are getting onto the rolls.
What Michigan Can Do: Implement a "robust and timely" verification system that, among other things, cross-matches Medicaid enrollees against other welfare programs. Adopt the best electronic and other tools to "systematically and routinely" verify eligibility.
4. Unwind the Medicaid Expansion
Problem: This state cannot depend on the federal government to keep funding its medical welfare programs at the same rate. The Medicaid expansion did not increase the amount of health care resources available to patients; it simply added additional patients who are less needy than the pre-expansion population. As a result any federal or state cuts to these programs may fall most heavily on those most in need.
What Michigan Can Do: Seek permission from the federal government to freeze enrollments from the less needy Medicaid expansion population. If the feds refuse, roll back eligibility to pre-ACA levels.
5. Increase the Supply of Health Care Providers
Problem: Long before Obamacare became law Michigan was already rationing health care in many ways, including restrictive scope of practice laws on midlevel providers like nurse practitioners, and using a "Certificate of Need" law that gives industry incumbents a say on whether new entrants will be allowed to compete against them.
What Michigan Can Do: Repeal the obsolete and damaging Certificate of Need law that benefits big industry players at the expense of patients and innovators. Eliminate scope-of-practice laws that benefit current providers but make care less affordable and accessible, and slam the door on innovative new ways of bringing health care services to people where they live, work and shop.
6. Protect Telemedicine and other Innovations
Problem: New services are exploding that give patients access to real doctors by video at a very reasonable cost, from the comfort of their own home. But around the country barriers are going up, including requirements for patients to go to a particular location for a video conference, or have a healthcare professional present during one, or get a physical exam before a prescription can be written. These burdens often have nothing to do with patient safety.
What Michigan Can Do: "Lawmakers should protect and empower healthcare innovators, especially when they offer consumers an affordable option to access timely care," advises the Toolkit.
7. Safeguard Novel Medical Arrangements like Direct Primary Care
Problem: Direct Primary Care is an attractive alternative that lets families or employers enter flat-fee contracts with a doctor for basic services. By eliminating the insurance company middleman for checkups and a range of routine procedures, costs can be dramatically lower and access to your doctor greatly improved.
What Michigan Can Do: Good news: Our legislature already took a huge step by passing a law that excludes Direct Primary Care from the comprehensive and restrictive regulatory regime that governs health insurance. Not-so-good news: A Senate-passed proposal for a pilot program extending the same benefits to Medicaid recipients was crushed by status-quo interests in the House. We'll get a do-over when the next Legislature takes up the state budget in the spring.
8. Expand Access to Volunteer Care
Problem: Many barriers stand between needy patients and health professionals willing to voluntarily provide free services.
What Michigan Can Do: Michigan could follow a model adopted in Florida, where doctors contract with the state to get protections from lawsuits in return for giving charity care to patients whose incomes are under 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Letting professionals meet continuing education mandates by providing volunteer care is another approach. Michigan should also facilitate charity groups that "parachute in" for large scale weekend clinics free to all comers, such as the Remote Area Medical organization.
9. Give State and School Employees Access to Free Market Health Options
The Problem: Health Savings Plans are popular in the private sector and are saving both workers and employers billions of dollars.
What Michigan Can Do: Nothing prohibits offering the same option to public employees. Legislation has been introduced to allow this in the past but did not advance. It should.
10. Protect Michigan Taxpayers from the ACA 'Cadillac Tax'
The Problem: It starts in 2018, and every dollar paid to the "Cadillac Tax" is a dollar that won't go to provide health care services. For family plans, 40 percent will be taken from of every dollar above an insurance premium price of $27,000. As healthcare costs continue to rise faster than inflation this tax will come down on more Michigan residents.
What Michigan Can Do: Our Legislature already passed a law in 2011 that capped state and school employee insurance benefit costs. But the protection has been watered down once, and is vulnerable to further erosion. One way to defend this law is to require that any Cadillac Tax on government employee insurance benefits be paid by the employees themselves, not taxpayers.
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Defined-Contribution Plans Help State Credit
Michigan's credit rating could increase after pension reform
Lawmakers hear odd arguments when attempting to reform the state's underfunded pension system. The latest argument is that converting Michigan's school employee pension program to a defined-contribution system will tarnish the state's credit rating. For evidence that this is unlikely, Michigan can look to its own history, which shows that offering new workers defined-contribution retirement benefits instead of defined-benefit pensions can improve a state's credit rating.
Michigan closed its state employee defined-benefit system in 1997, meaning all employees hired after that date would receive 401(k)-style retirement benefits instead of defined-benefit pensions. In 1998 the state's credit rating was upgraded. Credit ratings consider a lot of factors facing a government's fiscal health, but improved pension funding was cited as one of the reasons for the upgrade.
Other examples exist. Oklahoma closed its state pension system recently. (And they did it without triggering the "transition costs" frequently raised in Michigan.) Its credit rating also improved following the change.
The financial risk of underfunded pensions is well-known to credit rating agencies. Earlier this year, the rater Moody's alerted Michigan that resolving pension funding problems in school districts could be a factor that leads to an upgrade in a rating.
Putting control over retirement back in the hands of school employees would be better than our current system. It would phase out the ability of the state to generate additional debt by promising workers something, but not paying for it until later. And, contrary to what defenders of the system are implying, it would improve the state's long-term financial prospects.
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RTA Transit Tax Focuses on Old Technology, Ignores Opportunity
Mozena debates merits of plan on Michigan Matters
A ballot measure to increase Wayne County property taxes to fund regional transit is stuck in past, focusing on transportation technology of the 1800s.
During a debate on Sunday's episode of Michigan Matters hosted by CBS' Carol Cain, Mackinac Center for Public Policy's Vice President of Marketing and Communications John Mozena raised questions about the 20-year RTA transit tax plan that would rely on buses and trains.
We need to stop and think about what a 20-year plan means. … At a time of the most amazing change technologically in how people transport themselves around probably since the time Henry Ford was driving around in his quadricycle, we're locking ourselves into technology from the 1900s in busses and technology from the 1800s in trains rather than allowing the innovation that's out there in transportation to flourish. Twenty years from now, we're going to wonder why we ripped up a lane of road to put in a bus lane in rather than self-driving-car guiderails.
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Mozena went on to say that the plan ignores real transportation issues for Detroiters, who face the highest average auto insurance rates in the country, and ignores the opportunity to create jobs near where people live.
This is a terribly pessimistic plan because it assumes that in 20 years, low-income Detroiters are still going to need to get on the bus in the morning, leave Detroit to go to the job, and then come home at night.
Watch the full episode of Michigan Matters here.
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Ban gas chamber for pets; subsidies for hospitals and Flint businesses; authorize new school taxes; regulate drones; more
The House held a pro-forma session with no votes this week, but the Senate passed a number of bills in its final session before the Nov. 8 election.
Senate Bill 979, Authorize .5 mill Flint property tax for spending and subsidies: Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate
To authorize creation of a new Flint authority with the power to impose a 15 year 0.5 mill local property tax, and use the money for unspecified government spending and subsidies to business owners.
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Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4388, Authorize 3-mill "sinking fund" property tax for school security and computers: Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate
To allow school districts to impose a 3 mill property tax for 10 years for a "sinking fund" that can be used to buy computer equipment, software and security equipment. Under current law schools can levy up to 5 mills for 20 years for a much narrower range of uses.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 25, Give TEDF subsidies to hospitals: Passed 35 to 2 in the Senate on October 20, 2016
To allow Transportation Economic Development Fund subsidies and spending for hospitals. TEDF money is a type of subsidy in which the state pays for access improvements related to a particular developer's plant or project.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 732, Exempt Masons lodges from property tax: Passed 31 to 6 in the Senate
To exempt property owned by Masons' lodges from property tax, under a presumption that "Masonic activities" are by definition charitable purposes eligible for a tax break.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 1073, Authorize electronic hunting and fishing licenses: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate
To authorize the development and use of an electronic hunting license that individuals could display on a smartphone or other electronic device, to be ready by March 1, 2018. Senate Bill 1075 also passed, to authorize the same for fishing licenses.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 97, Require agencies disclose federal aid requests to legislature: Passed 36 to 0 in the Senate
To require state agencies that apply for any form of federal or other financial assistance to notify legislative leaders, relevant committees and the legislature's fiscal agencies within 10 days, with the notice including any conditions or stipulations associated with receiving the assistance.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 1076, Mandate 5 feet of clearance to pass bicycle: Passed 34 to 2 in the Senate
To prohibit passing a bicycle while driving a motor vehicle unless there is at least five feet of clearance between the vehicle and the bike. This would be permitted in no-passing zones too, if there is room to pass with the required clearance.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 992, Regulate aerial drones: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate
To authorize the use of aerial drones for commercial purposes in Michigan, if the operator is authorized or licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration. Recreational use would also be permitted subject to federal rules. The bill would preempt local government restrictions on drone ownership or operation, but allow local regulations on use within their jurisdiction. It would also prohibit improper use of drones, including privacy violations, and authorize misdemeanor penalties. Finally, the bill creates a state commission to develop more detailed rules.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 403, Ban gas chamber for dog and cat euthanasia: Passed 37 to 0 in the Senate
To require an animal control or protection shelter to use only injections of a commercially prepared solution for euthanizing a dog or cat. The use of gas chambers would be banned, although reportedly they are already no longer used.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
SOURCE: MichiganVotes.org, a free, non-partisan website created by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, providing concise, non-partisan, plain-English descriptions of every bill and vote in the Michigan House and Senate. Please visit http://www.MichiganVotes.org.
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Tilt from Tax Cutting to Corporate Welfare Renews Failed Approach to Economic Growth
Lawmakers face a number of corporate welfare proposals
During Michigan's economic "Lost Decade" of the 2000s, state government seemed to have just one response for crushing declines in income and employment that cost about 800,000 residents their jobs between 2000 and 2010: more corporate welfare.
If there was any evidence this approach works to turn around an ailing economy — there is not — it still could not have overcome the massive Michigan business and income tax increases imposed in 2007, and smaller exactions, such as a 2004 property tax hike.
Starting in 2011 a new governor steered a different course. Gov. Rick Snyder scaled back the pace of corporate giveaways, eventually ended a disastrous $500 million film subsidy adventure and replaced a destructive gross-receipts-type business tax with a simpler and less onerous corporate income tax.
It appears to have been an improvement as Michigan incomes and employment levels have grown much faster than the national average since the last recession.
But corporate welfare is always an attraction for politicians. Today, in the absence of any overarching growth or reform agenda, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are falling back into past bad habits. Indeed, the upcoming lame duck legislative session could see a corporate welfare blowout.
To protect his legacy of growth and reform, Gov. Snyder should be prepared to wield a sharp veto pen. He has raised some concerns about a recent proposal that would help real estate developers finance large projects using taxpayer dollars, but so far has not taken a public position on the proposal.
Fiscal analysts don't know yet how big a hit state revenues would take from this proposal, but the measure promises a huge wealth transfer from taxpayers to downtown Detroit real estate developers, such as Dan Gilbert. But that's not the only scheme percolating under the Michigan capitol dome.
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Rep. Holly Hughes (R-Muskegon) is the lead sponsor for a cronyist port authority bill being pitched with the usual "economic development" rationalizations. The measure passed the House in a bipartisan vote on September 22. It could deliver port revenue to politically well-connected developers while leaving taxpayers holding the bag if things go badly.
The owners of two privately owned port facilities in Muskegon are not amused at prospect of competition from their own local government. One of them said in press reports that he and the other operator can easily handle any new demand for shipping cargo into Muskegon and adding another player would be counterproductive, and unfair too.
The bill also holds out the promise of benefiting another well-connected special interest, Consumers Energy. The utility owns a closed Muskegon plant with property it would like to sell. Hughes's bill would potentially raise the price of that property artificially. Consumers had testified in support of it, but then shifted to a "neutral" position on October 17.
Hughes has struggled to justify how this legislation is a net plus for her region or the state. When pressed in a WJR radio interview, she told host Frank Beckman to call someone else for details.
Lansing's corporate welfare backsliding may be gaining momentum. The recent push began with a 2012 vote to deliver taxpayer dollars to Detroit Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch for a new stadium project. Last year lawmakers wrote a special law giving tax breaks to a Nevada company that wanted to use the moribund Steelcase "Pyramid" building near Grand Rapids for a data center.
Today, in addition to Hughes legislation and the Gilbert proposal, there's also a "public-private partnership" bill introduced by Sen. Mike Kowall. Like the port proposal this also could become a vehicle for delivering profits for well-connected developers with potentially big losses for taxpayers.
In another disturbing echo of Michigan's last "lost decade," the renewed corporate welfare push comes after a series of tax hikes imposed on regular citizens, including vehicle registration and gas tax increases.
If the current year in politics has demonstrated anything, it's that the public is sick to death of political elites putting their own careers and special interest politics above the interests of the state and nation. If Michigan lawmakers want to bring that revolt to galloping boil in this state, they are on course to do so. Let's hope they instead step back from this ledge.
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For summer window-boxes, you need flowers that have the same unflagging determination to perform as the young Shirley Temple. Geraniums, often coaxed into bloom before they go on sale at garden centres, are supreme in this respect. Their variety means that you can easily furnish window-boxes with nothing else: trailing ivy-leaved geraniums for the front, multi-bloom types for the bulk of the planting with a few variegated types interspersed for contrast. Many-headed geraniums, such as the 'Balcon' series, give a much fuller effect in window-boxes than geraniums with heads like boxing gloves. To flower most abundantly geraniums need sun, but a window-box in full sun is more difficult to manage than one in part shade. Compost dries out faster, watering may need to be done twice a day.
A window-box looks best if it fits as exactly as possible the size of the window. Small plastic containers balanced on large sills have an uneasy, we're-not-stopping feel to them. Made-to measure wooden containers are ideal. You can line them with heavy-duty black polythene, with a few holes punched in the bottom. The bigger the container and the larger the volume of compost, the easier it will be to keep.
Painting wooden boxes can trap you in a tyranny of annual repainting. Woodstains are less demanding and, watered down, give you some pleasantly murky greens and blues. Let the plants boss the box rather than the other way around.
Profusion is the effect that you want, but in a window-box you won't get it without a dedicated regime of feeding and watering. Slow-release fertilisers (I use Osmocote Controlled Release Plant Food) are excellent for this kind of gardening. So are water-retaining gels, which sop up water faster than sponges and then release it slowly as the plants need it. Both these can be mixed into the compost at planting time.
Plastic boxes are cheap, but are not always sturdy enough to take a full load of compost. They start buckling in the middle and sag outwards in a dispirited way. Whatever you use, make sure it is securely anchored. If you are very lucky, your house may still have the ornamental cast-iron surrounds of the late 18th and early 19th centuries originally made to fence in window-boxes.
Often boxes look better from the outside than they do from in. Flowers naturally turn towards the light, so from inside, you are backstage, as it were, looking at the supports rather than the painted backdrop. You can get over this by dropping the level of the window-box slightly, so that you look down on your flowers, but whether this is possible depends on the type of windows and sills that you have.
For a suitably lush effect (and window-boxes must be lush - nothing looks meaner than a mean window-box , its plants as distant as oases in the desert) you need plenty of leaf. Include at least one good foliage plant in each mixture.
Helichrysum petiolare is a natural, because it is not too bossy, threads itself about well, climbs and cascades. The standard version has grey, felted leaves, but there is a good lime-coloured variety 'Limelight' and a cream variegated one as well. The grey-leaved one loves heat and will not flag in a sun-baked position. The sulphurous one is better in part shade. Use them with marguerites ( Argyranthemum frutescens), white petunias and shrubby santolina, with perhaps some variegated ginger mint binding the whole cast together.
An average-sized window-box, 30-32 inches long, may accommodate a dozen plants, perhaps four each of the marguerites and petunias, one helichrysum, one santolina and two ginger mints. This will give a cool effect, lost though if you live in a white painted house. White flowered window-boxes look best set against grubby stone, especially the dark grits and granites of the north.
Grey helichrysum also looks good weaving its way round ivy-leaved geraniums, such as the pale pink 'Madame Crousse' with a mixture of lobelias stuffed into the gaps. 'Cascade Mixture' trails elegantly and has flowers in a wide range of colours. Add some deep purple heliotrope if you want an extra benefit from your window-box. It smells gorgeous.
For a much warmer effect, use the greeny-yellow helichrysum 'Limelight' with a golden variegated ivy and some brilliant yellow and blue pansies. These need regular dead-heading if you want them to give a long display, but they are reliable flowerers and have the sort of squidged-up faces that always make you smile. Ivy is very slow growing, so you will need to splash out on some decent-sized plants. They are at least perennial and with care, could be with you for several seasons. If you get tired of them in a window-box, you can pot them up and use them inside.
Nasturtiums are also plants that raise the spirits. There is nothing restrained about a nasturtium. It is a helter-skelter opportunist and will probably swamp any plants that you put with it. Use it on its own, sowing seeds direct into the window-box. If it is too soon to get rid of your spring display, raise nasturtium plants in pots inside, planting them out at the end of May. 'Alaska' (Thompson & Morgan 1.99) has leaves splashed and mottled with cream. If you want a more compact nasturtium, a new variety 'Princess of India' (Thompson & Morgan 1.99) makes bushy plants with dark foliage and deep red flowers.
I've ordered plugs this year for a short cut container of blue surfinias (five plugs for 5.95) mixed with the beautiful grey-leaved trailing plant, Lotus berthelotii (five plugs for 5.95). The foliage is the real point of the lotus, but towards the end of summer it produces parrot-beak flowers of a rich brownish-orange. With a smattering of trailing lobelia, there I am. Sorted.
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