Bolger Proposes a Way to Fix Roads Without a Tax Hike

This headline should read: "Bolger has new plan to fix Michigan roads by diverting critical revenue from cities and schools."

The Speaker's plan amounts to robbing Peter to pay Paul. It cannibalizes our schools and cities to pay for roads. The state legislature has already slashed over $6.2 billion from revenue sharing to Michigan cities in the last decade. The Speaker's plan doubles down on that shortsighted disinvestment. In fact, the Speaker's proposal isn't a plan, it's an accounting gimmick.

A bipartisan majority of the Michigan Senate has already approved a sensible transportation infrastructure funding plan. HB 5477 would phase in a new percentage-based gasoline tax and will result in an additional $1.2 billion for transportation funding by 2019. Revenue from other bills in the package could result in transportation funding increases as high as $1.5 billion annually once fully phased in. The Speaker should set his deeply flawed proposal aside and pass HB 5477.

Michigan's road to prosperity isn't riddled with potholes!

Read the full article, from the Detroit Free Press on November 25th, 2014, here.

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