Posted on 03/06/2019 6:16:18 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing what some opponents are calling a draconian gas tax increase to fix the state’s crumbling road infrastructure.
Whitmer’s budget proposal will include a 45-cent gas tax increase, which would be phased in over three separate intervals, the governor’s spokeswoman Tiffany Brown told reporters Monday. The rate would begin increasing in October, hit its second phase in April 2020, and ease into its final phase by the end of that year.
The increase is expected to generate roughly $2 billion a year in additional revenue for roads, according to media reports. Whitmer, a Democrat who ran on fixing Michigan’s roads, will present her idea to lawmakers Tuesday during a joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriations committees.
Whitmer’s plan would make Michigan’s one of the highest fuel tax rates in the country, behind the likes of California and Pennsylvania. Michigan motorists currently pay 26.3 cents per gallon. Total at-pump costs in the state are already the sixth-highest in the nation, in part because Michigan applies its 6 percent sales tax to fuel purchases.
Michigan Republicans have mixed feelings about such an increase.
Michigan Republican Party Chair Laura Cox panned the idea, saying in a statement that residents “deserve real solutions on this critical issue, not a tax and spend solution which places the burden on the state’s overtaxed families.”
Others are more supportive.
They did that in WI under demtard Doyle.
Right lobe and left lobe.
“She’s going to make the colossal failure Governess Granholm look like a genius.’
Never happen. Granholm pushed fake “cool cities” and robbed billions from successful communities and dumped that money into Detroit. The peckerhead attorney general refused to indict Granholm, because he got a cut of the action.
The commie whore Granholm still owes me $600. She is way high on my list of commie bitches I want to see hanged from a lamppost.
Same old tax and spend commies. Hope the liberals who voted for her are happy.
The needs of government and its bureaucrats always come first.
Fixed
If MI is charging sales tax on its gasoline, shouldn’t it be using the revenues derived thereof for highways before raising the gas tax itself?
Too cute to fall?
You beat me to it. They voted her un, they get what they deserve. Coming from MI I do not feel the least bit sorry for them.
Haha. Didn’t get reelected, but I’m sure Corbett made a lot of democrats who didn’t vote for him happy.
AOC Economics....
>>>It’s what Democrats do.
Perhaps its what governors do. Republican governors in Ohio and Alabama have also proposed increases.
Lungs?
Don’t worry the new gas tax will just increase the sales tax base.
She should look at what happened in France when Macron did the same thing.
Yellow vests!!
Well, she blew me away. Thanks to her policies, we had to move out of Michigan.
Let her go. Let her push this idea.
Nice cans. Otherwise, meh.
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