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‘Terrible Idea’: Michigan’s Democratic Governor Pushes an Enormous Gas Tax Increase
The Daily Signal ^ | March 5, 2019 | Chris White, Daily Caller News Foundation

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Michigan; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: california; demagogicparty; energy; gastas; gretchenwhitmer; hydrocarbons; incometaxes; increase; lansing; maga; mi; michigan; opec; pennsylvania; taxcutsandjobsact; taxhike; taxreform; tcja; transportation
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Er, if they want to increase tax revenue, why don't they cut taxes? That's what actually works.

But I guess she can't because it's the principle of the thing. Whatever principle that would be.

41 posted on 03/06/2019 7:49:43 PM PST by SamuraiScot (am)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“...to fix the state’s crumbling road infrastructure....”

Here’s how this scam works: the above statement will be true. But the state will fund roads less from its other funds in proportion and spend the money elsewhere.

The lottery also works this way. True, they may spend 100 percent of it on education (which is mostly throwing good money after bad anyway, but that’s another story). Then they contribute less from other funds to more “important” things.


42 posted on 03/06/2019 7:54:14 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Those Wolverines just can’t get enough of taxation.


43 posted on 03/06/2019 8:01:22 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: equaviator

Typical LIB lunatic . ..ugly inside .


44 posted on 03/06/2019 8:09:19 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

check the roads in NY, California, Boston etc where taxes are highest- they are crap- terrible roads- where did the gas tax money go to? Certainly not all of it went to fixing the roads


45 posted on 03/06/2019 8:53:26 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This fat *itch is going to crush tourism and bankrupt the state!

Grandmole part2 is too stupid to anything but tax-n-spend.


46 posted on 03/06/2019 8:53:31 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Bob434

“check the roads in NY, California, Boston etc where taxes are highest- they are crap- terrible roads- “


Boston doesn’t have bad roads.

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47 posted on 03/06/2019 8:57:39 PM PST by Mears
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To: aquila48

You should have showed the pic that had her fat belly , complete with belly button, from the front.


48 posted on 03/06/2019 9:00:20 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: ssaftler

I noticed you’re impressed with her intellectual assets as well.


49 posted on 03/06/2019 9:01:31 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Mears

??? Unless things have changed recently- they are pretty bad on back roads- especially in winter- I’m not talking turnpikes- and i should have said Massachusetts, not just Boston


50 posted on 03/06/2019 9:01:57 PM PST by Bob434
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To: aquila48

She looks like ‘Monica’s’ much older, much fatter, sister. All that missing is the stain on that blue dress.


51 posted on 03/06/2019 9:03:49 PM PST by Beagle8U (Lil Debby Slobbercow is Michigan's NPC.)
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To: Bob434

Massachusetts I’ll agree——singling out Boston made no sense. City roads take a real beating,especially in a geographically small city like Boston.

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52 posted on 03/06/2019 9:05:01 PM PST by Mears
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To: stevem

Look at Ct also. New Rat Gov proposing tolls everywhere from what I hear.


53 posted on 03/06/2019 9:06:12 PM PST by OKITRUMP77
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Democrats NEVER LEARN. Thought that the ruin of Detroit by Communist Party member Coleman Young (along with other Reds on the City Council, esp. Mahaffey and Henderson), would have taught the state a lesson about Marxist economics. BUT NOOOOO!

These same Dem aholes still want to totally destroy the state and the auto industry. They just handed the Republicans one of the best anti-Dem 2020 campaign issues of all times. Hope the GOPers take the issue by the balls and run with it till the end of time.


54 posted on 03/06/2019 10:24:06 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (with)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ha ha. Must be trying to outdo democrat presidential candidate Jay Inslee who is trying this in Washington State.


55 posted on 03/06/2019 11:13:28 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Governor Whitmer has proposed offsetting this tax with a deduction on the State income tax. A large part of Michigan’s economy is tourism. As a rule, tourists pay the state income tax in the state where they live. They are not likely to come here, but rather spend their money elsewhere.


56 posted on 03/07/2019 12:27:35 AM PST by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Tax and line the pockets of themselves and their friend’s leftists.

JoMa


57 posted on 03/07/2019 2:57:15 AM PST by joma89
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To: lightman
Make Pennsylvania’s the SECOND highest gas tax in the nation.

Sorry, but once the full 45 cent increase goes into effect, Michigan will leap into the lead, but Kalifornica is increasing their tax this summer, so poor old Pennsylvania will drop to no. 3. I hope governor Wolf acts quickly to correct that insult.

Michigan's current tax is 44.1 cents, add 45 cents to that and you have an eye-popping 89.1 cents per gallon!

58 posted on 03/07/2019 3:10:16 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

For roads.......what a joke.


59 posted on 03/07/2019 3:11:42 AM PST by wardamneagle
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To: ssaftler
Given your photo, I’m guessing that her “brains” are mostly below her shoulders.

Yes, that's the same intellectual asset that has propelled AOC into the leadership of the DemocRat party.

60 posted on 03/07/2019 3:15:47 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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