Fix the damn roads??!!-----Whitmer urges new taxes to fix Michigan roads

Tax could target gas, mileage, or tolls -  Jamie A. Hope 

It’s a new legislative term, and one of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s first calls for action was to increase taxes.
“To my friends in the GOP: fixing the roads in a sustainable way means looking for new, fair sources of revenue,” Whitmer said in a Jan. 16 press release.
Whitmer’s primary campaign promise in 2018 was to fix Michigan roads. 

• Seven years later, the governor is still talking about roads. 

But her latest comments did not say where the increased revenue will come from. 

Options could include raising the gas tax, enacting toll roads, or creating a mileage tax.

“She had 6 years, a 40% increase in state revenue, a legislative trifecta and a $9 billion dollar surplus,” Nesbitt wrote on X...