2012 ballot measures

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Florida's:
Amendment 1: Florida citizens are allowed to opt-out of Obamacare's individual mandate.
Amendment 2: Uncontroversial property tax break for combat-disabled veterans.
Amendment 3: Places a cap on revenues, and if said revenues extend beyond the cap they go to a rainy-day fund and to tax relief.
Amendment 4: Prohibits increases in the assessed value of homestead property if the fair market value of the property goes down, as well as a variety of other measures related to property.
Amendment 5: Originally made two different Supreme Courts because our Legislature is smart like that. Basically it minimizes the power of the Judiciary.
Amendment 6: Ban on public funds being used for abortion and otherwise lets politicians interfere with women's rights to make decisions about their own reproductive health.
Amendment 8: Taxpayer funding of churches is now essentially required. Yippee!
Amendment 9: Property tax exemption for spouses of military veterans/first responders who died in the line of duty.
Amendment 10: Exemption on ad valorem taxation for personal property that's worth more than $25,000 but less than $50,000.
Amendment 11: Tax exemptions for homes of low-income seniors.
Amendment 12: Council of state university student body presidents created.


Hopefully nays on 5, 6, and 8.

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30: Nay (Tax hike)
31: Yea (Good, keeping budget under control)
32: Yea (Keeps corporate money out of politics)
33: Yea (Makes sense)
34: Yea (Human rights)
35: Yea (Good)
36: Yea (Good)
37: Yea (Good)
38: Yea (normally I oppose tax hikes, but since it's for schools)
39: Yea (closing loopholes is good)
40: Nay (not a fan of the current map)

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Florida's:

Amendment 6: Ban on public funds being used for abortion and otherwise lets politicians interfere with women's rights to make decisions about their own reproductive health.

It's even worse than that. It would remove women from the provision in the constitution that provides that each person is to be free from government interference.

That's why I added the second section; "lets politicians interfere with women's rights to make decisions about their own reproductive health".

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1-Aye (symbolic)
2-Aye (voting Nay makes you a HP)
3-Nay (nonsensical)
4-Aye (make around 20,000 jobs, increase GDP by $1 billion, increase personal income by $5.3 billion)
5-Nay (obvious)
6-Nay (no)
8-Nay (no)
9-Aye (see 2)
10-Nay (kinda stupid)
11-Aye (helps old people)
12-Yea (actually decent)

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Excellent news in Florida. All the Amendments (save three) have failed, including the ones destroying an independent judiciary, the anti-abortion one, and the one that basically repeals the Blaine Amendment. The only ones that passed were largely inoffensive and dealt with property tax relief for low-income seniors, wounded vets, and widows of first responders.