Michigan legislature considering proposal to cut funding from colleges that offer gay benefits
A Republican legislator in the Michigan House has filed legislation that would cut 5% of a college's funding, and shift it to K-12 education, if the college continues to offer domestic partnership benefits. In his own words:
"I had an amendment put into the education budget that takes 5% away from colleges that give same-sex/unmarried benefits and places up to $60 million of that into the MPSRS K-12 budget if colleges do not stop skirting the law and the will of the people. Colleges can’t say they are short of money when they skirt the law and give such benefits. The Dems didn’t like this - it passed.”
It's kind of repugnant, but it is politically savvy.
"I had an amendment put into the education budget that takes 5% away from colleges that give same-sex/unmarried benefits and places up to $60 million of that into the MPSRS K-12 budget if colleges do not stop skirting the law and the will of the people. Colleges can’t say they are short of money when they skirt the law and give such benefits. The Dems didn’t like this - it passed.”
It's kind of repugnant, but it is politically savvy.