It depends, there is a whole raft of laws, regs and court cases. If you have to live there, as a condition of employment- generally not. An apartment manager that gets a free apartment, for example, usually gets that tax-free.
Former Kansas governor Sam Brownback, who single-handedly wrecked the state’s economy, now weighs in on how anti-abortion forces can proceed after the resounding defeat of the amendment.
“Something else I think we’ve just got to do is hope a group of conservatives can come in somewhere and buy a major TV station in the state — in Wichita, Topeka, Kansas City — to start getting out the news; instead of calling it the ‘anti-abortion forces,’ call them the ‘pro-life forces.’ “We need a Fox News in Kansas that’s an actual conservative — and like Fox or more conservative, but they can broadcast the local news in this state,” Brownback said.
Brownback is a boogeyman in Kansas. Ds running against Rs say that the R is just like Brownback. Rs running against other Rs say that their opponent was Brownback’s BFF4Life. Siding with him on basically anything is suicide.
Oooooh, they’re mad.
Well, if unclear wording is a criteria (criterion?) for rejecting it, the amendment in Kansas should never have been on the ballot.
There is nothing Republicans fear more than the will of the American people.
Exactly right. Credit the anti-amendment forces for letting everybody know exactly what was meant by a purposely vaguely worded amendment.
We’re lucky the MI Supreme Court allowed the amendment on the ballot. This was an unforced error on the pro-choice side. How difficult would it have been to proofread the petition for lack of spaces between words before it was circulated?
My understanding is that the spaces were there in the original word processor version, but the software that converted in into printable form messed up the kerning. Or maybe it was the firmware on the printer. Or a combination of those.
And of course, the spacing is by far the most important part of a petition for a plebescite question.
I realize I’m jumping in late here.
People may not be pro-drunk driving. But they might be opposed to a specific anti-drunk driving proposal.
Suppose, for example, somebody proposed a constitutional amendment that would create mandatory five year prison sentences for every DUI conviction, including the first. A lot of people, even those who favor the criminalization of drunk driving, might say that penalty is too harsh and lead to other undesirable outcomes like prison overcrowding or people fleeing police stops.
They also might oppose funding a new program to limit drunk driving if the cost is very high, or the proposed methods seem ineffective or even counter-productive.
Right. In general, a slight majority of Americans (per the last poll I read, could be different now) are against abortions. But only 20% want all abortions banned. Americans are leery of late term abortion on demand.
An equivalent drunk driving bill would make any BAC above .0.0 = DUI. Few would support that, especially as a decent number of people normally have a very low BAC.