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Government Reform
                 

 

 

Improving our State Government

 

 

REDUCING TAXES:

bulletRescinding Business and Personal Income Tax levied in 2007 
bulletReducing taxes even further

                         * 2007 finished with $350 Million Surplus (without tax increases levied)

                        * "Budget Cutting" resulted in a budget that is $3/4 Billion MORE than 2007

                        * Prison System as efficient as Indiana would cut another $1/2 Billion

                       * Reform to Legislative Compensation would lead to Millions more that could be saved

                       * We're finding the waste that Lansing was "unable" to find

bulletAssuring that our residents are not pushed beyond their ability to provide for their loved ones by taxes that help assure the wealthy and powerful can improve their standing
bulletFind ways to increase Revenue without creating additional taxes or raising existing ones (putting more people to work, creating higher paying jobs, etc.)

 

REDUCING REGULATIONS:

bulletHelp Departments understand they are to facilitate a Better Life; not inhibit through excessive fees, regulation and bureaucracy
bulletReducing Regulations and Taxes that create too great a burden

                       -- Allows more "friendly" State for Business

                      --  More Business means more jobs

                      --  More Jobs means more people have a chance for a better life

bulletEncouraging expansion of Business including: 

                       -- Modifying homes for Seniors 

                                     * Help Seniors stay independent and in their own homes

                                     * Creates more work for Contractors

                       -- Greater Assistance for Returning Veterans and their Families

                                * Support Groups and Assistance provided

                                * More care AFTER they return home is LONG OVERDUE

                       -- Robotics to take care of tedious work in hospitals, etc.

                                * Allows Nurses, Doctors, Skilled Staff to take care of other matters and spend more time tending to the patients needs

 

REFORMING LEGISLATURE:

bulletFinding more efficient ways to meet the needs of Michigan's Citizen's
bulletPART TIME VS. FULL TIME

                KEEP FULL-TIME (For Now)

                            WE are in CRISIS

                            Need more than a "part-time" effort to take care of Jobs, Health Care,

                                      Education, Protecting Citizens at Risk and Government Reform

               REMOVE LIFE TIME BENEFITS

               DEADLINES & PENALTIES

                             Hold Accountable by setting deadlines for work to be done

                                         if not; they personally pay a penalty for each day late 

                             Helps assure Focus on Challenges that need to be overcome and

                                        done in timely manner

               PREVENT RAISES when "only option" is to Raise & Create Taxes;  

 

CRIMINAL SYSTEM REFORM

bulletCultivating effective means to reduce the Prison population and return criminals back into society, prepared to responsibly handle caring for themselves and loved ones

                           -- Restitution +   instead of incarceration that costs US $32,000+

                                     (Victim protected and reimbursed, criminal pays price for crime)

                           -- Prisoners would be employed at Minimum Wage and would then pay for:

                                                * their housing cost

                                                * their utility cost

                                                * their housing cost

                                               * their clothing cost

                                               * their health care cost

                   (When released, prisoner is used to working every day and paying bills; better prepared for life)

                   (money that WE don't spend, can be spent in other areas or taxes reduced)

                   This type of program when tried in varying forms results in just 10% of convicts returning to prison within 2 years (compared to 90% with our present system)

 

bulletOnce Prisoner has "paid their price to society"; their record "expunged"

                     -- Debt has been paid

                     -- Save money on keep and tracking "old" records and "former" prisoners

                     -- Allows prisoners to have a better chance at returning to a "normal" life

bulletReducing the price "Hard working, law abiding citizens" pay, when a crime is committed (putting the savings into: other needs of the State, additional law enforcement and/or lessen Government spending overall)

 

 

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