I don't understand any politician frankly.
Here in Michigan we have no fault insurance so a portion of your premium goes into the MCCA (Michigan Catastrophic Coverage Association) it basically doubles your car, motorcycle, watercraft or snowmobile insurance to cover PI where the victim exceeds their own coverage. Thats fine to a point. That point is, they keep raising the MCCA addendum to cover the rising cost of hospital and related expenses. Personally, I'd do away with it entirely. Especially in light of Obamacare. Typically, my motorcycle insurance for each bike (I have 4 BTW) is about 300 bucks a year and the MCCA is 250. Cars are the same way. If you have full coverage like we do, it's around 500 a year per vehicle. Add in the MCCA and it jumps to 800.
If you don't have insurance, you can't get plates/stickers, so people that can't afford insurance take a piezo torch and heat the stickers and pull them off in parking lots.etc., and put them on their plates and if they need plates and sticker, they get insurance, show the Secretary of State their insurance cert, get the plates/stickers and go cancel the insurance. It's a big game here. About 1/3 of all Michigan drivers have no insurance because they can't afford it.
The simple cure is to make the MCCA Addendum an option. If you want the coverage, you get it. If not, you sign a waiver and you don't have it.
Problem is the politicians don't want that because the MCCA Association is a fat cat paycheck for the politicians that sit on the board...and their asses.
Now, our roads are falling apart so our governor decides that he's raising the gasoline tax 19 cents a gallon and diesel 24 cents a gallon. That will make Michigan fuel taxes the highest in the country and we have the highest unemployment, the highest rate of foreclosures (except Nevada) and the most population leaving the state.
It ain't rocket science to me. You raise taxes, people go elsewhere. Now is not the time to increase taxes as our dumb *** governor will find out and Obama is going to find out too, Obama has so much on his plate with the deficit, Syria, Israel, Afghanistan, Gun Control, a dysfunctional senate and congress, the Beltway Bozo's are going to find out that we have had enough and that goes for this state as well.
Our dumb *** governor won't get my vote again. I'd rather have Mickey Mouse.... and certainly not Obama either. Jessie Ventura could do better.
I see the economy (if you want to call it that) is starting to recede back to a morass like we had 2 years ago. It never got too much better but it did level off for a while. Now it's regressing and not surprisingly, Obamacare is fueling the regression, How wonderful but to be expected with a Bozo at the helm.
Obamacare is going to cut right at the heart of what fuels the economy and thats not Chinese imports but rather what manufacturing base we have left. It ain't much but it's still there, about 1/3 of what it was 20 years ago but still lots of people are employed in blue collar, good paying jobs and their employers are about to take it on the chin with Obamacare and that includes the UAW employees and their union that donated so much to the Obama campaign and instructed their union brothers on how to vote...for Obama, but what the unions forget is without the employers for the workers to have a job, the union goes bust. It's math 101. No job, no worker, no worker, no union dues, no union dues, no union.
I'm concerned that we are going to get to the point where the right to bear arms against a tyrannical government will also be to bear arms against desperate citizens that want to take from me for themselves.
I know where I stand on that........
Thought I'd give you a little insight of how it is to live in a tax depressed state.
I'm lucky. I live 10 miles north of Ohio so I get my gas and diesel there. We shop in Ohio, get the smokes in Ohio, about everything I buy is in Ohio except handguns.
I moved from Ohio to Michigan years ago. I should have stayed in Ohio.
Politicians are 99% idiots.
Seriously I dont know if it would help but maybe All of us could bombard NY with Emails ?
