 stupid democrat bill of the week 51613 representative jim ananich dflint has introduced house bill 4342 the bill was introduced on 2282013 and referred to the committee on tax policy where hopefully it will never see the light of day and die in december of next year introducing a bill like this was a waste of the bill drafters time the paper it was printed on and all of the other efforts that went into getting it introduced and printed but it isn rsquo t surprising that a democrat from flint would seek to take state money and give it to others who would do absolutely nothing for it the bill would require the state to   establish and administer a ldquo ave michigan rdquo matching grant program to provide individuals and families with incentives and an opportunity to build savings and accrue assets provided under this act the program would provide a 50 match of every dollar of a qualified taxpayer rsquo s federal income tax refund that he or she has directly deposited into a qualified savings account and maintained within that account for a minimum of 1 year not to exceed 25000 these matching grants under this act would be made by electronic funds transfer directly into the qualified taxpayer rsquo s qualified savings account the state may take any necessary action to ensure the successful operation of the program including but not limited to entering into agreements with qualified financial institutions related to the operation of the program and the establishment of qualified savings accounts so let me summarize we are going to give up to 250 in matching funds to anyone making less that 1800000 a year if they put money in from a tax return and keep it in the bank for one year because we want them to learn how to save money are you serious this will magically make them responsible savers i see why the people of flint elected this guy he wants to hand out money to them at our expense the bill would also create ldquo infrastructure rdquo to verify that the ldquo program rdquo is working correctly between the banks and the individuals and that the money stays in the account for a year i wonder how much that would cost we just heard the state has extra revenue what a great place to spend it the following is a link to the actual bill as it was introduced http wwwlegislaturemigov documents 20132014 billintroduced house htm 2013hib4342htm 19 they tried it 50 years ago they tried it 50 years ago to give the people on welfare the rent money and they we supposed to pay their rent with it it did not work they spent the money on other things they did not pay their rent and the land lards refused to rent to them unless they got to the rent directly from the state or local unit you can not give deadbeats extra money and expect them to manage it chuckles another liberal blockhead another liberal blockhead idea when will these liberal progressives stop trying to come up with ways to spend the taxpayer s money this bill goes along with the other bill a few years ago trying to get military escort when lawmakers die or the bill that the state should own our water on our property i am sick of these lawmakers one more reason to have a parttime legislature and keep term limits in place ida salisbury  