Should businesses be prohibited from requiring employees to be vaccinated?

Asked by ABC 17 News

406 Votes

Should businesses be prohibited from requiring employees to be vaccinated?

46%

Yes Yes

54%

No No

46%

Yes

Vaccine proponents say businesses requiring coronavirus shots for employees is a business freedom issue.

Vaccine proponents say businesses requiring coronavirus shots for employees is a business freedom issue. Show Less

7 Comments

Lisa Gore

99.98% survivability of the “Covid” and experimental status of the vax. It goes against the Nuremberg code.

LeAnna Reese

Plain and simple its our constitutional right to do what we want with our bodies. People can have abortions, you can choose for your child, etc. I WILL NOT put something in mine nor my families bodies that didn't have time for proper testing.

Max

That's one of the reasons we have The Nuremberg Code today.

Max

Businesses do not have the right to deny citizens of their Constitutional Rights. If businesses fell this way, they need to relocate to a Communist country. Read the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.

Zaos Gonzolez

Should the obese be prevented for spending money on MacDaddy MacDonalds?

Douglas Bledsoe

Individual freedom

Dusti

Businesses should not have the right. And if they do they will lose a lot of employees

54%

No

Some Republican members of the Missouri legislature have suggested having a special session to stop businesses from enacting such rules,

Some Republican members of the Missouri legislature have suggested having a special session to stop businesses from enacting such rules, Show Less

3 Comments

Nolanda Dodd

If they are going to work in public they should have to keep public safe!

Dani Rumford

All these constitutional law scholars are wrong. It is settled law. Hospitals have been requiring vaccinations for years with staff. If Missouri tries to control what businesses can do, business will leave Missouri.

Max

True, if businesses try to control their patrons, the patrons will use other businesses. Easy decision.

sheri smith

It's employers right just like requiring the flu vaccine in order to protect the other employees, customers and the operation of the business.

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

Asked by ABC 17 News

207 Votes

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

24%

Yes Yes

76%

No No

24%

Yes

2 Comments

Zaos Gonzolez

I believe with all my heart that Columbia residents should donate their entire paychecks to the City. If the City had ALL of the money, it would solve ALL of the problems.

Max DeYoung

That's how blue cities work, tax, tax, tax, and tax some more.

Zaos Gonzolez

Tax to the MAX. Tax till you drop, and it still don't stop!

76%

No

5 Comments

Debbie Neate

They want to raise taxes because the “sales taxes are less than expected”. Could this be due to Columbia’s citizens not shopping downtown, etc. as they do not. Want to deal with addicts, vagrants and panhandlers. Lower revenues are due to administrators poor policies and other choices ie..plan fine

Susanna Johnson Kettlewell

Get rid of the unnecessary positions created the past 3 years! The answer is to reduce the size of government, NOT raise taxes! Columbia's sales tax rate is already too high. Continue letting crime and homelessness flourish, raise taxes, and people will leave the city,

Allan German

Why not cut the city official salaries by a few thousand dollars each to help make up some of the money that the city is looking for? But I doubt a single city official would be willing to do that even though most of them live better than the rest of the city.

Zaos Gonzolez

The recorder of deeds salary alone is over $96,000!!!!!!!!!!!! TRULY INSANE. Most of us can never even imagine that amount of money.

Will Mason

Not until after ALL avenues for budget cuts have been explored Taxes are too high already.

Zaos Gonzolez

If you are alive, there is no such thing as too many taxes. EVEN when you are unalive, you are taxed.

Fat Guy Outdoors

This is what Columbia just voted in. Great job!!!!

Did you see damage in your area from the Easter Sunday storms?

Asked by ABC 17 News

144 Votes

Did you see damage in your area from the Easter Sunday storms?

47%

Yes Yes

53%

No No

47%

Yes

2 Comments

Lynda Shaw

We have major flooding from Black River in Lesterville; Reynolds County, Missouri. We have major damage from the November 2024 flood..,then major wildfires in May 2025, 1 week later we went through another major flood, May 2025, last night (4/20/25) Easter Sunday winds 68-70mph. Photos attached

Dee Dee Smith

Lost two of three vehicles from huge tree falling on them

53%

No

1 Comment

Zaos Gonzolez

BLUFFaloe being elected is more damage than any tornado can produce.

ABC 17 News

Should businesses be prohibited from requiring employees to be vaccinated?

46% Yes Yes

54% No No

46% Yes

54% No

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

24% Yes Yes

76% No No

24% Yes

76% No

Did you see damage in your area from the Easter Sunday storms?

47% Yes Yes

53% No No

47% Yes

53% No

46%

Yes Yes

54%

No No

46%

Yes

54%

No

24%

Yes Yes

76%

No No

24%

Yes

76%

No

47%

Yes Yes

53%

No No

47%

Yes

53%

No