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The States: Mad Scientist Laboratories of Democracy

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My company back in MN gave everyone a half day to vote if they wanted, but the hourly employees had to use VAC time or make it up. I thought that was fair enough.
 
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Alaska's Governor announces budget plan.

Main points:
-Institute a State Income tax
-Capping payout amount for the Permanent Fund Dividend
-Restructuring oil tax credits
-Reducing the cuts in the State budget

Will this happen?
“I’ll certainly give credit for trying,” said Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage. “But, I mean, does he really think he’s going to get this past the Legislature?”
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Should it happen? Absolutely.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Alaska's Governor announces budget plan.

Main points:
-Institute a State Income tax
-Capping payout amount for the Permanent Fund Dividend
-Restructuring oil tax credits
-Reducing the cuts in the State budget

Will this happen?


Should it happen? Absolutely.
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Does the Alaskan constitution have a balanced budget requirement? Heck, does Alaska even have a constitution or do you just wing it every year like in The Lottery in Babylon?
 
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Kepler said:
Does the Alaskan constitution have a balanced budget requirement? Heck, does Alaska even have a constitution or do you just wing it every year like in The Lottery in Babylon?
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Alaska does have a constitution (it's a statehood requirement) but AFAIK it doesn't have a balanced budget requirement.

This is pretty much everything nobody in the state wants but what the state really needs.

Of course every (R) person out there is saying that if we just cut the budget more and more we'll be fine and let's start with those welfare programs... :rolleyes:
 
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How is straight ticket even legal?

And how effing lazy are we that we can't take a moment to pause and reflect for each person were voting for?

SMGDH
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
How is straight ticket even legal?

And how effing lazy are we that we can't take a moment to pause and reflect for each person were voting for?

SMGDH
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Why would it be illegal? It's just a way to quickly vote along party lines. It's not required and the option is already there to "pause and reflect" for each person.
 
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If you put just names and no affiliation on a voting ticket I doubt many people would be able to pick out the party members.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
If you put just names and no affiliation on a voting ticket I doubt many people would be able to pick out the party members.
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This happens for lower offices in MD. For example, school board has no affiliation. It's actually a really good idea -- it forces me to research the candidates to weed out the wackjobs who want to rewrite high school textbooks to say Jim Crow never happened. (Typically, screening out the Republicans does the same thing, but for lower office party affiliation stops being about policy and starts being about which developer is bribing you).
 
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Kepler said:
This happens for lower offices in MD. For example, school board has no affiliation. It's actually a really good idea -- it forces me to research the candidates to weed out the wackjobs who want to rewrite high school textbooks to say Jim Crow never happened. (Typically, screening out the Republicans does the same thing, but for lower office party affiliation stops being about policy and starts being about which developer is bribing you).
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The problem is, in Minnesota this means that if your last name if Johnson or Olson or Anderson, you automatically get elected even if you happen to be in prison.
 
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SJHovey said:
The problem is, in Minnesota this means that if your last name if Johnson or Olson or Anderson, you automatically get elected even if you happen to be in prison.
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Yeah, but those are the only three names in MN anyway.
 
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Kepler said:
Yeah, but those are the only three names in MN anyway.
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Naw, we have more than just the three names. There's Erickson, Larson and Gustafson and Nielson. We got names.
 
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If you put just names and no affiliation on a voting ticket I doubt many people would be able to pick out the party members.
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They do that locally here in Anchorage. Though, like last election, it's still easy to pick out the loonies.
 
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That's a load of bs. Have they forgotten about Kansas? The state whose judges had to step in and declare policies unconstitutional because they weren't even providing a quarter azzed education.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
That's a load of bs. Have they forgotten about Kansas? The state whose judges had to step in and declare policies unconstitutional because they weren't even providing a quarter azzed education.
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Walker has done a lot of damage all by himself. Kansas is even further out there. But I wonder if that place is kinda a drift on its own.

Edit: Goofy. The article says:

In 2011, barely a month into his governorship, Walker’s administration returned $23 million in federal stimulus money that was supposed to be used to improve broadband connections for 380 Wisconsin communities — including 385 libraries and 82 schools. The money could also have been used "to improve police, fire department and hospital communications in rural areas,” according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports at the time.

...that's tax monies paid by WI residents to the federal government that was turned down.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Alaska does have a constitution (it's a statehood requirement) but AFAIK it doesn't have a balanced budget requirement.

This is pretty much everything nobody in the state wants but what the state really needs.

Of course every (R) person out there is saying that if we just cut the budget more and more we'll be fine and let's start with those welfare programs... :rolleyes:
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People whine about how we shouldn't cut welfare because it's a small portion of the budget. Ever think you might get more tax revenues if you cut welfare?
 
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People whine about how we shouldn't cut welfare because it's a small portion of the budget. Ever think you might get more tax revenues if you cut welfare?
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Corporate welfare? Sure. Cutting all welfare would just lead to a huge growth in the homeless population. And a lot of dead, frozen kids.
 
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