Posted on 05/06/2015 6:10:40 AM PDT by don-o
Edited on 05/06/2015 6:28:24 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
LANSING, Mich. (AP)
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“Governor Snyder is smart to be taking a comprehensive approach toward fixing the roads, bridges, sewers and water lines that are crumbling beneath our feet and wheels.”
The Detroit News, October 27, 2011
Investing in our Infrastructure
Governor Snyder said it in his special message on infrastructure: better roads drive better jobs. Investments in the state’s infrastructure are essential to the economy and to the future growth of our state. The Governor’s message focused on a modern transportation system that moves people and goods efficiently, reliably and safely, as well as water and sewer systems that support and protect Michigan’s rich environment.
The proposed transportation budget totals $3.3 billion in both 2013 and 2014, including $119 million in one-time general fund appropriations in fiscal year 2013 to allow the legislature time to develop a long-term road funding solution.
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Rick Snyder February 9, 2012
This is a low voter turnout. There are over seven million voters here in Michigan. It is clear that all the hype about people wanting the roads fix was just that.
I too agree with the other poster above that a clean bill is what I will vote for nothing else. I am tired of being lied too. These were so called Republicans who put this forward. Around 40% for things other than roads attached to this. What a joke.
Last year one of the new road that was put in was so badly made my brother and I stopped the car to see if we had something hung up under it. Turned out to be the roughness of the new road. Wonder how long before this road needs to be replaced again.
This just goes to show the Republicans how out of touch they were last fall. These guys just do not get it, we are feed up with this crap of adding extras to a bill.
I vote down every tax increase or bond measure, knowing how much money the government pisses away. Of course, the sheeple will always vote in more self-servitude if it’s for the school, roads or parks. And oddly enough, two years later they’re back again.
| I vote down every tax increase or bond measure, knowing how much money the government pisses away. |
i hope our politicans are reading this...
WE ARE THE TAXPAYERS..
WE PAY THE BILL...
WE COME FIRST..
what WE demand for our money is as follows:
police protection..
fire protection..
clean drinking water and sewage disposal..
trash pick up..
roads suitable to drive on to GET TO WORK SO THAT WE CAN PAY THE BILLS...
everything else comes second..
EVERYTHING ELSE COMES SECOND..
there are NO exceptions to this...
time to put the taxpayer first..
What college?
The politicos are acting as if they don’t already receive $1B in gas tax and vehicle registration funding. They act as if EVERY summer is not filled with road closures and orange barrels. They act as if there is no history of mismanagement of funding.
The fact is that the progressives simply want to use the “bad roads” to keep people angry and voting for tax increases. Luckily, the trick did not work this time.
I will celebrate this victory and pray for more.
“What college?”
I was wondering the same thing! So long as it wasn’t Hope, all is good! ;-)
Didn’t one semi-honest politician in the legislature step up and tell the people that the Michigan Constitution would not let them spend a penny from this tax increase on roads?
I thought I read that in the end all the extra money was going to be filtered to more State end of year tax payments to non-working people and the schools.
gvsu
Gotcha. Thanks.
Government must learn to do more with less, just like everybody else.
The proposal that I saw on the ballot said, use taxes eliminated in one spot, and use taxes to be increased in another. But having seen Sen. Levin’s ads in favor sold me on NOT voting for it and more to the point, sold me on making sure I got to the polling place.
Naturally my straight-ticket-Dumbocrat relatives condemned the plan as “Republican” and “regressive” and called for a “progressive” income tax.
I totally agree.
I believe the roads have been allowed to deteriorate further on purpose. Near Clare they have been working on the road on the south end of town since last fall. It’s still not done. Another stretch of road we were on today is brand new but full of potholes and gravel patches.
I don't think there's any question about it. It's like the infamous gov't 'shutdown', where they tried to make it hurt as much as possible for the little guy with their choices of closings and withheld services.
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