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NEW POLL OVERVIEW:<br />
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Michigan Senate Bill 280 is currently on the Senate Calendar but has failed to be discharged from Committee for consideration.<br />
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The bill would repeal Michigan's new pension tax and reinstate the homestead property credits for middle-class families.<br />
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Five Republicans voted in 2011 against the bill backed by Gov. Rick Snyder that rewrote state tax code, eliminating the oft-criticized Michigan Business Tax and cutting personal income tax exemptions on pensions while limiting homestead property credits.<br />
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The current bill was introduced and sponsored by Senators Rick Jones, Tory Rocca, Joseph Hune, David Hildenbrand, and Jack Brandenburg and currently is in the Finance Committee where it has languished since March 20, 2013.<br />
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Michigan Democrats have introduced similar legislation to repeal the pension tax, including a bill sponsored by state Sen. Bert Johnson of Detroit that was sent to the Finance Committee in February.<br />
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NEW POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should the Michigan Legislature pass a bill to repeal the pension tax on seniors and the Homestead Property Tax Credit?<br />
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Yes<br />
No<br />
Undecided<br />
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TO VOTE IN THIS POLL CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING LINK<br />
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<a href="http://www.clinton-countygop.org/content/should-michigan-legislature-pass-bill-repeal-pension-tax-seniors-and-homestead-property-tax-">http://www.clinton-countygop.org/content/should-michigan-legislature-pass-bill-repeal-pension-tax-seniors-and-homestead-property-tax-</a><br />
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(To enter your comments click on </span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span>Add new comment</span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span> after you vote.)<br />
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PREVIOUS POLL QUESTION:<br />
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Should Michigan pass a new law regarding </span><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span><span style="font-size: larger;">Infant Safe Sleep</span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;"><span style="font-size: larger;">'</span></span> practices for hospitals and new parents?<br />
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Yes - 13%<br />
No - 85%<br />
Undecided - 2% <br />
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THERE WERE FOUR COMMENTS SUBMITTED ON THIS POLL:<br />
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COMMENT #1<br />
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Safe Sleep<br />
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The ideas behind this law are great. However, they need to be spread through family, church, community and educational organizations. This is an example of the expansion of the literal &quot;nanny state&quot;. It also is an eroding of the responsibility and privilege of family and is not part of any giant legal arena. If this were followed the next would an open door to every detail of life. Ormand Hook, Mecosta County<br />
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COMMENT #2<br />
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Infant sleep act<br />
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This is another good reason we need a part-time legislature. PLEASE get out of our lives and leave us alone!!!<br />
Ida S.<br />
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COMMENT #3<br />
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Infant Safe Sleep Law<br />
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It seems to me that all such a law woulld accomplish is for some grieving parent to be arrested and charged because he/she had a baby that died while sleeping in an &quot;unauthorized&quot; position. It does not take a village( as Hillary Clinton said it does) to raise a child.<br />
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When will the bureaucrats stop with the idea that they have power over every aspect of our lives!!<br />
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COMMENT 4<br />
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Infant safe sleep law<br />
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This is ridiculous proposing such a law. Why not educate people in grammar school or high school on how to read and how to learn. We have the whole internet at people's disposal plus parenting classes options if they want to know this.<br />
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