 ccrp poll presidential electoral college vote change allocation in michigan   new poll overview state representative pete lund introduced house bill 5974 last week that would change how the votes are allocated from a winnertakeall system to one in which the winner and runnerup would each get some of the votes the plan would give the winner of the presidential race in the state nine of the 16 votes and one additional vote for every 15 of votes above 50 that the winner received so if the winner received 53 of the statewide vote that person would get 11 of the state s 16 electoral college votes and the runnerup would get 5 democrats are adamantly opposed to the bill saying it rigs the election for the republican presidential candidate in a state that has voted for the democrat at the top of the ticket since 1992 democrats have said movement on the bill would poison the atmosphere in lansing and could harm efforts to pass other more pressing bills such as road funding measures during the lameduck session new poll question should the michigan legislature pass hb 5974 to change the formula for allocating michigan rsquo s president electoral votes yes no undecided to vote in this poll click on this link http clintoncountygoporg content shouldmichiganlegislaturepasshb5974changeformulaal e28099spresidentelec  to enter your comments click on add new comment after you vote previous poll question should the michigan house pass the bill to raise the gas tax based on the wholesale price of gas yes 17 no 80 undecided 2 seven comments were made on this poll comment 1 raise gas tax it s my understanding that our road use taxes are higher i this state than neighboring states and yet our roads are worse why is that it s because the money is not being appropriated for road repair let s fix that before we talk about raising taxes comment 2 raise gas taxes our road tax use is the highest among the neighboring states and yet our roads are worse why is that because the money is not being appropriated for road repair let s get that fixed before we raise taxes comment 3 dump proposed gas tax now the wholesale price of gasoline and diesel can change twice in one day the administration and accounting of the proposed tax would be a nightmare for the fuel distributors almost all of who are independently owned family businesses they are not big oil treasury would need new software to administrate this new tax the list goes on michigan already has one of the highest fuel tax rates in the nation and has sales tax on gasoline and diesel fuel along with the federal excise tax and state excise tax michigan sales tax is placed on the federal excise tax we tax the tax the proposed tax will raise the price of fuel and put gas station owners out of business legislators need to quit stealing from the road tax fund and there will be enough money to fix our roads how many more abandoned gas stations do we need on our corners comment 4 gas tax increase i cannot understand why we subsidize the movie industry and then ask taxpayers to ante up more money for road repairs there is money to be spent on roads without raising taxes on us all its apparent that when michigan can pay professor gruber almost 12 million to set up a health care exchange that we did not use in the end we are not choosing wisely with funding maybe the representatives in lansing should pick up the phone and talk with a few of the retired appropriations committee members they know where there is fat to cut how about asking dave agema for some suggestions unfortunately a lot of our representatives don t feel the need to spend time digging for the answers much easier to follow the leader and parrot their talking points once the bill is passed i hope that enough of the representatives say no time to cut the fat and eliminate the pet projects those of us on fixed incomes don t want to choose between gas and buying food comment 5 tax increase michigan still reels from a spotty economy too many are unemployed or underemployed increasing road taxes will increase the cost of everything shipped food clothing getting to jobs heating the house visiting grandma there is no quicker or more certain way to kill the fledgling recovery we pay 400 million too much each year for government construction until we repeal the prevailing wage laws republicans raised the budget 7 billion a year in just four years subsidies for movies and crony capitalism and to bail out detroit would have paved roads we do not collect too little tax money we just do not use it wisely cut the fat first comment 6 gas tax no new taxes no increased taxes the only republican governor who lost in 2014 was the one who raised the gas tax tom corbet of penn tax payers want less taxes not more or new creative ones comment 7 anonymous wrote 6 days 22 hours ago tax on gas the same old story every time the price of gas goes down they want to increase the tax on it when gas goes up will they lower the tax hell no start using the tax dollars for what it was intended for stop moving money around for your pet projects   all emails addresses  