What's on the Missouri ballot?

[chayam]

I decided to research just what I'll be voting on November 4

Comments

[mantispid]

If I still lived in Missouri, I would probably vote against all of them

[chayam]

Excellent. Thank you so much for your insight.

The general rule of thumb I use when voting is less government. Bigger and bigger government doesn't seem to be solving our problems.

But I easily get distracted. "...but more money for schools sounds good..."

:-)
Thanks again.

[cos]

Libertarians often miss (or willfully ignore) the fact that government & laws can create freedom, because they tend to think of freedom in a purely negative sense, as "the absence of restrictions". For example, I definitely have more freedom because government built roads and sidewalks and enforces the rules on how they're used that maximize freedom for everyone; or because government provides social services that keep some people who might inconvenience of hurt me from doing so which makes me freer to wander around and do what I want to, etc. A typical libertarian would never look at funding social services in this light, they only see "it forces me to pay tax money to help someone else" and therefore doesn't increase freedom

[cos]

Those English-only laws that get proposed from time to time around the country make me go "ewwww".

[keiv]

Stormwater Control Projects - not sure about what the exact projects are, or why the financing of them is being put to a public vote, but stormwater control projects are usually good and necessary things. This includes building and maintaining levees, storm sewers, canals, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, etc - to control an minimize flooding. If the projects are necessary, then they should be done whether the voters pass them or not. Missouri is no stranger to flooding, and I'd think the state would have stormwater control in their budget without having to leave the financing to the whims of lagerly uninformed voters.

[varrin]

#1: I'd abstain on that one. I don't think it ought to be a constitutional issue (in any state) anyway

[scratchtasia]

I've finally gone down the ballot and made my decisions. Those decisions, along with my reasoning and some informative links, are now posted in my journal.