What are your state's "hot issues?"

[oldrooster]

If we could pay for what we want I want a refund on my school money also I am in my late 30's no kids and I didn't want to finish high school when I was forced to attend school see here in Indiana they call it compulsory education I was forced BY LAW to attend until I was 18 I attended the next 3 months until I finished so by my figuring I wanted to drop out after the 6th grade so since I have worked 19 years since school I want a refund for 11 years and 9 months (was forced to attend kindergarden) so where is my refund? Also I never visited any national parks museums or monuments other than 1 visit to Mt Rushmore so I need a refund on all that. Also as an adult left the state 5 times via driveing only so all airport funding lots of interstate money etc needs to be refunded to me via the fed

 

[mom'sfolly]

Lordy people, you all need to keep paying for education, and hopefully lobby for some basic civics courses as well.

While I certainly sympathize with the idea that we should all be able to check off what our tax dollars go to, it will never work that way. It may work that way at a very small level, and it usually does in small towns and school districts. However, you can't pick and choose on everything.

Also, majority rules usually means that a minority is getting trampled somewhere. That is why we have things like the Bill of Rights, the Americans with Disabilities Act and integrated schools. At one time the majority said that blacks and women couldn't vote. Even further back, you couldn't vote unless you owned land.

 

[Baymule]

I did not see any Hot Buttons on the ballot. Voted early. Not that we don't have issues from time to time, just not this time. A big stink a few years ago was voting to go from a "dry" county to a "wet" one. Meaning there was no alcohol sales in the county anywhere and the drinkers wanted to buy a beer without having to go to the next county. It passed and now the grocery stores are well stocked with wine and beer. Have to go to the liquor stores for the hard stuff.

There was a retarded fellow in town that would walk or hitch hike to the nearest liquor store over 12 miles away. He didn't make it to see the county go wet. It seems on his way back to town one time, he was drinking his beer, probably because it was so heavy to carry all that way, and he stepped out in front of a truck. Townspeople pitched in to pay for his funeral.

 

[KristyHall]

I got my specimen ballot in the mail yesterday and once again I am annoyed by the so-called important issues that make it on to the ballot, while there are so many REAL issues that we citizens never get to vote on. Here in Maryland, the life-or-death issues are whether to allow table games at our casinos, and whether to allow gay couples to marry. As an example of a REAL issue, how about letting us vote on where our tax dollars go...especially when so many of them are diverted to other countries while there are people here in need? Why don't we ever get to vote on stuff like that? I can't be the only one who ever asked this question, can I?

Just curious...what are the "important" issues in other states?

might not be a big issue to you, but being able to decide who I wish to marry is a big issue to me.

 

[Joe Jordan]

Here near the capital of Kansas the hot topic has been whether or not it should be legal to protest a funeral.

 

[mom'sfolly]

Unfortunately, the words that I can say about those who protest at funerals would get me banned on BYC.

Those people have no respect. Not for themselves, not for God, not for their country, not for their fellow human beings, not for death, or for a life lived serving others. And in turn, they deserve only revilement. They make me sputter with anger.

 

[Joe Jordan]

Its a wonder they haven't been SSS.

 

[sezjasper]

Unfortunately, the words that I can say about those who protest at funerals would get me banned on BYC.

Those people have no respect. Not for themselves, not for God, not for their country, not for their fellow human beings, not for death, or for a life lived serving others. And in turn, they deserve only revilement. They make me sputter with anger.

x1000

 

[sezjasper]

might not be a big issue to you, but being able to decide who I wish to marry is a big issue to me.

To me as well, and going over my original post I can see that I worded it poorly. I believe that everyone should have the right to enter into a civil union with the partner of their choice, but in the case of gay individuals, this highly personal decision becomes a legal issue. The issue is on the Maryland ballot now to try to reverse the earlier decision legalizing gay marriage. With all the problems our country has, I cannot understand why so much time and effort is spent trying to persecute a group of people who are only trying to enjoy the same rights and privileges that the majority take for granted.

 

[oldrooster]

Here near the capital of Kansas the hot topic has been whether or not it should be legal to protest a funeral.

In MYH the only way to properly protest a funeral is to not attend.....