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(By Andrew MacKie-Mason)
Over the course of the last few months, I've ended up opposing all six proposals on the statewide ballot in Michigan this year. For those interested, here are the links to the relevant posts and brief summaries of my rationales.
Proposal 1: A NO vote on Proposal 1 will repeal the Emergency Financial Manager law, an unconstitutional intrusion into local governance. I've written extensively on this law: see here.
Proposal 2: This proposal would put an absolute right to unionization and collective bargaining for all employees into the Michigan Constitution. Unionization is good; poorly thought out absolutes are not. I've also addressed this in the context of graduate student research assistants here.
Proposal 3: This would constitutionalize an energy plan. It's a bad idea. Circumstances change, and things of this specificity and limited duration don't belong in the Constitution. Besides that, I'm leery of overt subsidies to renewable energy: the government should invest in research and infrastructure, not energy production.
Proposal 4: This proposal would reestablish a system of collective bargaining for home health care workers. It sounds good, but I'm not convinced it's a good idea. Home health care workers are dispersed, and don't really work for a single company, so it's not clear what a union can really accomplish for them. That's not to mention, of course, that the original unionization vote (several years ago) only included votes from about 20% of those eventually unionized.
Proposal 5: This would make tax increases require a 2/3 vote of both houses of the legislature. It's a terrible idea, not least because it would doom any effort to simplify the tax code (even one that didn't raise taxes on net). Save Michigan from financial ruin by voting NO.
Proposal 6: This is an attempt by the billionaire owner of the current bridge from Michigan to Canada to use the Constitution to block competition. Don't let him.
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