[Lorianne]

What’s next for Michigan roads after the failure of Proposal 1?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp3eKeyqwf0

[cripplecreek]

Tallies on the epic beatdown.

http://miboecfr.nictusa.com/election/results/15SG1/90000001.html

Now drop the film subsidies, corporate welfare, and choo choo fantasies and stop blowing transportation money on everything but roads.

[kevslisababy]

But they don't tell the whole story. About half of the money would supposedly go to the roads, with no guarantee, then the rest was split between MORE school funding, and a bump in the Earned Income Tax Credit, which takes money out of the taxpayers pocket and gives MORE to those who don't pay taxes.

They took a simple straight forward fixed which was first proposed and muddied it up for special interests. Our fuel taxes now are supposed to fund road maintenance/repair, and yet the money is spent elsewhere.

We cannot trust these people, which is the bottom line, really.

They ran all kinds of scare ads, our economy, our businesses, our tourism, our vehicles and even our health would suffer if we didn't votes yes. Over the top.

If it were truly that urgent and critical, they would have already found the money elsewhere and fixed our roads.

[jsanders2001]

Never enough taxes for the bottomless pit. They double and triple tax for the same thing placing them under different categories or create new names hoping you won’t notice and question it. Then they ind a way to let it trickle down into the pockets of the benefactors who proposed the tax in the first place. I’m surprised more judgment hasn’t been handed down yet but I’m sure its coming...

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Never vote for a tax increase even is so called only for:

What happens is first the money that was allocated based on other taxes is diverted, and second, there is nothing to stop this money from being “borrowed” for another program.

Yes, just because the law says taxes collected for a Project X can only be used for Project X, does not stop the Dems (and RINOs) from “borrowing” that money (and never repaying).

[Iron Munro]

Similar situation where I live.

State, city and county governments spend all the tax money on nice-to-do programs then they have no money left to do the actual necessities they were hired to do, like repair roads.

Instead of budgeting for necessities and cutting back on their touchy-feely projects they spend their time trying to come up with loopholes or underhanded ways to trick taxpayers into paying higher taxes.

But they always seem to have money for artsy projects, new buildings and parks named after themselves, bike lanes on high speed highways, free telephones, free computers, free college and other stuff for illegals and moochers, muslim outreach, relocating minorities from the projects to suburban neighborhoods where other people actually pay for their own homes, etc., etc.

[GoldenPup]

Voters overwhelmingly voted "no" on Proposal 1 - the statewide road funding ballot initiative

Even the functional illiterates don't believe the lying basta*ds will use the $$ like they say. This has been a constant mantra in Michigan for years and years. They get the money and instead of fixing roads, they piss it away on other stuff and lie about it.

[vette6387]

I don’t know about you all, but my sphincter tightens when I read that word “comprehensive.” It’s use is usually not a good sign. In this case, the good citizens of MI figured that out. Somehow, government needs to know that more money isn’t the answer.

[motor_racer]

The $1.2 Billion they say they need for the roads here represents less than 2% of the budget. Are we supposed to believe that the rest of the budget could not tolerate a 2% cut? And why, when we are told it involves only a “small tax increase” do we hear upon its failure that “massive, draconian cuts” will be necessary?