November 6 Referenda Questions - Time for informed votes.

Lot's of new borrowing is the state retiring any debt??

5 no

No x 5

I don't care about #1, may skip that one and let those who do decide it.

No on the others.

charlie

1. I don't care. Maybe it will shut them up.

2. Thru 5....no new borrowings while we are bankrupt as a nation and in the hole as a State.

Aren't the 'Federal Grants" all money to be borrowed from China and others? How is that going to be paid back?

In item 3, doesn't this mean that such lands purchased will come out of the tax base this increasing property taxes as well as requiring bond repayment via taxes?

In item 4, how many of the rail, bus and airport facilities being "improved" are really cash dumps which operate at losses we all pay for?

Item 1, how does issuing gay marriage licenses protect religious freedom?

Excellent idea for a thread, BlueJay. Thank you.

Best, skf

Worst of all, we're all not supposed to understand that those federal matching dollars simply come out of my pocket too...why not ask it "would you approve Bond A at a cost each year for 10 years of $221.70 per citizen in state taxes PLUS $891.50 per citizen added to you federal tax liability?".

No across the board.

#1: Biblically, morally and culturally wrong. Always has been. Always will be.
#2 -5: Should not continue borrowing when we are still paying off current debt.

Nolo 1-5

Thank you, Editor, but our mutual friend who pursues trout gave me the idea. Good to see informed responses too.

As always no on all 5.

If there was a chance anything diagnosed by UM wouldn't cost money in future , I still wouldn't vote for it , because that isn't ever going to happen!

No on all.

What part of no don't others understand? Especially 5 no's.

The federal matching dollars don't just come out of our pockets , they will also likely be printed as worthless paper and dumped on the economy causing further inflation- a hidden tax that affects the poor and the middle classes the most.

I saw a poll that had the cost of things above jobs for what Americans are most concerned about. The question is will most Americans connect the dots?

On 1

Morally I would vote No, but a friend who is divorced countered that why should only a man and a woman be subject to the punitive laws and edicts of divorce and marriage. He said let the stupid sobs get a priest with resultant weddings expenses and the state involved in dividing the assets at a later date, serves them right.

No on the rest

And the NO on the rest will show what actually the electorate is made of, at least those that vote. Because it will show that what actually is occurring in America and in Maine is the voters deserve a bankrupt America and QE 3, good point Mac

PS It is interesting that QE1, 2 and three has come into the conversations of Americans these few years, who started that? :)

It is hard to blame the 585 people in another thread when you vote Yes on more borrowing

Conversation overheard in the check-out line. This person had voted absentee and said she didn't know about the four other referendum questions aside from #1. She said she voted YES because "we'll lose all those matching funds from the federal government". I had to bite my tongue.

1.) YES
2.) NO
3.) NO
4.) NO
5.) NO

My copy of the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom of religious institutions. I see protections for religious institutions in Question 1, but none for religious individuals. In fact, the religious beliefs of one group [the group that believes gay marriage is fine] is given preference by the government in the form of government enforcement of sanctions on religious individuals who choose not to allow their businesses to be used for gay marriages. No on all.

No, on all 5 questions.