Of course, what I would expect is something for that money.  It's not just a transfer of wealth thing that bothers me.  It's a transfer of wealth with no accountability, responsibility, or similar sacrifice for those who get a pass on retirement health care benefits and even get state pensions for one state job while getting paid for working in another state job.  I expect a basic philosophical shifting from the way the state presently operates.

But when you get down to it, I have a choice as do hundreds of thousands [millions?] of other retirees.  It's called Florida... or Texas... or any other state that doesn't screw over the fixed and limited incomes of their seniors.

Think Michigan has funding problems now?  Wait until the Baby-Boomers put paper to pencil and conclude that they are better off elsewhere.  Those are seniors who put an awful lot of money into the local economy.

Maybe my home becomes my "summer home" and my residence goes elsewhere.  I like warm winters anyway.