I refuse to live in a world without cheese.

Me, too. I will give up deep-fried foods. I will even give up fatty meats. I will not give up cheese.

I vote 'Yes' on P-C being awesome!

Hee.

The smoking proposition is maddening because the Yes ads are "It's for our health! Don't let Big Tobacco fool you!" And the No ads are endorsed by, like, public school teachers and stuff. I wish they would stop letting issues cloud the issues.

Triglycerides - what you ate the day before can effect the number. when ine where higher than usual - it was july 5th - even though I ate or drank nothing after midnight - the beer showed up in that count. and all the other junk.

California still has the most propositions, right?

The whole "Cut taxes! Cut taxes! Now Now NOW!" thing started as Proposition 13 in California back in the mid-'70s.

California still has the most propositions, right?

We're up to Proposition 90. There are 13 on the ballot today. I'm voting yes on 3 of them.

I've never quite understood the "TAXES ARE TEH GREETEST EVIL EVAR!!!1!" mentality that seems to grip so many people.

Of course, I don't own a home, so that's probably part of it. But still, taxes pay for things we use collectively. Sure, there's all kinds of things like pork barrell projects, and graft, and taxes not paying for the things they should be paying for, and paying for things we don't need (like costly foreign wars for vague, ill-defined purposes), but we do owe a debt to each other, payable through the State.

We had two smoking ballot initiatives. One was called "Smoke Less Ohio" by its supporters--the tobacco industry and the restaurant association. It would basically wipe out every single local indoor smoking ban across the state. The other one was called "Smoke Free Ohio" by its supporters--the health industry and just about everyone else which would make those local bans statewide. Talk about confusing.

taxes not paying for the things they should be paying for

This seems to be the argument against nearly all the propositions on the table. It's sad.

I think what happens here is that a lot of the taxes aren't evil - but there is a lot of incomplete information. There is a utility tax on our ballot this time ( actually I should say again) that is supposed to pay for fire ,police, etc. not a bad thing. but it goes int - the general fund- so there is no garuntee that it will pay for police and fire. So people won't vote for it. of course they did some bizzare math the last time it was up - and figure out that it would cost people X per year when it more like 10X. esp with prices for fuel going up. Anyway, people felt lied to . And the more I talk with people about various propsitions, the more people feel like they aren't getting the whole story - and it is hard to find the whole story- and money makes it even harder.

If I were ever elected to public office, I think my first proposal would be a bill that forbids you to name a bill the opposite of what it does.