Michigan’s Democratic Governor Pushes An Enormous Gas Tax Increase

[Swordsmyth]

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 (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/04/gretchen-whitmer-proposes-45-cent-gas-tax-hike-to-fix-roads/3057483002/) 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 one of the highest fuel tax rates in the country, behind the likes of California and Pennsylvania. Michigan motorists currently pay 26.3-cent per gallon. Total at-pump costs in the state are already the sixth highest (https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-july-2018/) in the nation, in part because Michigan applies its 6 percent sales tax to fuel purchases.

More at: https://truepundit.com/terrible-idea-michigans-democratic-governor-pushes-an-enormous-gas-tax-increase/

[pcosmar]

On top of the previous Republican Gas Tax increase.

Michigan,,still doing everything wrong,,, in Epic fashion

[Zippyjuan]

to fix the state’s crumbling road infrastructure.

Whatever happened to Trump's $1 trillion (or was it $1.5 trillion or $1.7 trillion? The amounts kept increasing until it completely disappeared) infrastructure plan which was supposed to fix problems like that? Promises made, promises kept?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/trump-calls-for-1-point-5-trillion-in-infrastructure-investment.html


Trump calls for $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill during State of the Union speech

President Donald Trump called on Congress Tuesday to advance a $1.5 trillion plan to "rebuild our crumbling infrastructure" in his first official State of the Union address.

Trump's remarks, while still a ways off from the level of detail to be expected from a formal written proposal, offered the clearest picture yet from the president himself on his vision for an American infrastructure revamp.


The official text of the plan itself, CNBC reported Tuesday, will be specific enough to circumvent the criticism initially heaped on the scant first version of the administration's tax plan, while remaining broad enough to avoid its chances of passage being bogged down by minutiae.

Officials told CNBC at the end of 2017 that the push for infrastructure would likely begin in January, making it the next big issue for the administration to conquer after the passage of tax reform legislation in December.

[Pauls' Revere]

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 (https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/04/gretchen-whitmer-proposes-45-cent-gas-tax-hike-to-fix-roads/3057483002/) 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 one of the highest fuel tax rates in the country, behind the likes of California and Pennsylvania. Michigan motorists currently pay 26.3-cent per gallon. Total at-pump costs in the state are already the sixth highest (https://taxfoundation.org/state-gas-tax-rates-july-2018/) in the nation, in part because Michigan applies its 6 percent sales tax to fuel purchases.

More at: https://truepundit.com/terrible-idea-michigans-democratic-governor-pushes-an-enormous-gas-tax-increase/

.45 cents over three years? weak ass shit,...California did .25 cents in one fell swoop and then voted down a repeal. BooYah, that's how we roll. :sarcasm:

[oyarde]

Whatever happened to Trump's $1 trillion (or was it $1.5 trillion or $1.7 trillion? The amounts kept increasing until it completely disappeared) infrastructure plan which was supposed to fix problems like that? Promises made, promises kept?

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/trump-calls-for-1-point-5-trillion-in-infrastructure-investment.html

There is nothing for trump to do to fix michigan . There is nothing michigan will do to fix michigan . If they raised the gas tax 1.00 the infrastructure would not be fixed .

[Dr.3D]

There is nothing for trump to do to fix michigan . There is nothing michigan will do to fix michigan . If they raised the gas tax 1.00 the infrastructure would not be fixed .
Yes, that money has to be going someplace. But it's probably not going to what it's intended for.

[fedupinmo]

There is nothing for trump to do to fix michigan . There is nothing michigan will do to fix michigan . If they raised the gas tax 1.00 the infrastructure would not be fixed .

You gotta fill up the graft tank first.

[Anti Globalist]

That will surely solve all of Michigans problems.

[aGameOfThrones]

Puerto Rico called it "La Crudita" and it was to pay debts etc and debts weren't paid etc.

[timosman]

.45 cents over three years? weak ass shit,...California did .25 cents in one fell swoop and then voted down a repeal. BooYah, that's how we roll. :sarcasm:

How many states have over $4/gallon gas? :tears:

[AngryCanadian]

Michigan is a broken state.
They might as well ban cars and airliners to.