Protesters lined the railings of the inner rotunda of the Capitol in Lansing as the Republican-majority Michigan House of Representatives began debate on a law that would strike a heavy blow against unions by prohibiting them from compelling workers to be members and pay dues. An estimated 10,000 people demonstrated outside. Michigan State Police Inspector Gene Adamczyk said the Capitol building was closed to visitors when it reached capacity of 2,200. Midwest crowded into the state Capitol and marched outside in freezing temperatures on Tuesday as the legislature began debating a “right-to-work” law restricting unions in a stronghold of organized labor. More than 12,000 workers from throughout Michigan and the U.S. I suppose it’s so vague that it’s appealing when you start to get into specifics, spending cuts get a lot more unpopular. 75% support “cutting government spending across the board,” which is pretty much the same as going over the fiscal cliff. The alternate Republican ideas were also Mitt Romney’s ideas.īut that last question is so odd you wonder why they asked it. Obama won reelection, so it’s no surprise most people back his ideas here. This is pretty much just a continuation of the trend in polling. So Republican ideas are unpopular - no surprise there. “We’re in an era now where there’s a lot of cynicism about trickle-down economics.” “Democrats really have a winning issue here, and we should drive it hard,” said Celinda Lake, the Democratic pollster who helped conduct the bipartisan poll. Only 38 percent buy the GOP argument that raising taxes on households earning over $250,000 per year will have a negative impact on the economy. Independents favor such a move by 21 percentage points, 59 to 38 percent. Poll: Voters want to soak the rich to avoid fiscal cliff.Īn American appetite for tax hikes gives President Barack Obama leverage in fiscal cliff negotiations.Ī new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds that 60 percent of respondents support raising taxes on households that earn more than $250,000 a year and 64 percent want to raise taxes on large corporations.Įven 39 percent of Republicans support raising taxes on households making more than $250,000. As an independent report highlighted, “Accounting for factors that reduce costs, states as a whole are likely to see net savings from the Medicaid expansion.” We hope states will take advantage of the substantial resources available to help them insure more of their residents. And, while the law does not create an option for enhanced match for a partial or phased-in Medicaid expansion to 133 percent of poverty, we will consider waivers at the regular matching rate now and, in 2017 when the 100 percent federal funding for the expansion group is slightly reduced, broad-based State Innovation Waivers. We clarify in our new guidance that states have the flexibility in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program to provide premium assistance for Exchange plans as well as to adopt “bridge plans” that offer coverage through both Medicaid and Exchanges – keeping individuals and families together when they cross the line between Exchanges and Medicaid. That’s led lawmakers in several GOP-run states, such as Texas and Louisiana, to toy with the idea of partially expanding Medicaid in individual counties as a way of overcoming their governors’ continued obstruction.īut Sebelius has confirmed that pursuing that option will make states ineligible for the matching funds that the federal government will offer to the states that choose to fully expand Medicaid:Į explain how Exchanges and Medicaid administrative costs will be funded and how we will continue exploring opportunities to provide States additional support for the administrative costs of eligibility changes. Since then, GOP governors have been digging in their heels against reform, refusing to expand their states’ Medicaid pools to extend affordable insurance to millions of low-income Americans. Although the Supreme Court upheld the bulk of the landmark health reform law last summer, Obamacare’s proposed Medicaid expansion was scaled back when the court ruled that states should be able to decide whether or not to expand their programs.
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