 is it time to have the legislature raise taxes to increase the gas tax to fix the roads  yes no undecided support more user taxes to fix state highways and local roads yes its high time for the state legislature to support more user taxes wholesale gasoline and diesel taxes to fix our state highways and local roads here in michigan our rough and bumpy highways and roads are in terrible shape and an embarrassment for michigan there s no magical tooth fairy that s going to provide the money to fix our highways and roads we need to pay more for road and highway infrastructure system all one has to do is travel to ohio indiana or wisconsin to find better highways and roads and bridges because they invest more in their infrastructure there than we do here also please obtain facts from the michigan legislative service bureau which is a nonpartisan body which properly researchs issues and reports truthfully rather than those special interest petroleum lobbyists which shade the truth and frankly don t much care for our roads and highways as long as we keep buying their gasoline and diesel fuel regards bob craig st johns mi increase in gas tax i am sick and tired of the government taking more from the people when what we already pay is regularly wasted raise taxes for roads we need our roads to be repaired but i am not in favor of increasing taxes i would favor eliminating michigan s prevailing wage law under the prevailing wage act projects financed with state funding require that union wages and benefits be paid by nonunion contractors it has been estimated that the cost of a project is increased from five to fifteen percent under this law repeal would give small contractors a chance to bid on projects at a lower cost to the citizensnot just on road projects by school building projects etc i believe its time to have our state behave like a mom and pop businessnot like the bureaucracy it has become hexx no we are spending hexx no we are spending about 850 million a year on crony capitalism subsidizing farleft film makers and connected special interest corporate welfare cut that first prevailing wage costs michigan taxpayers about 400 million a year 224 million more on just public school construction eliminate defined benefits for bureaucrats paid more than twice what their counters in the private sector the average state employee compensation is about 105000 a year while the average private sector employee gets about 43000 georgia has more population far better roads and a state budget about 10 billion less in the private sector we get waranties and more competetive bidding and the state road prevailing wage is about 10 hr more than the private sector prevailing wage the few union companies that can bid on michigan roads are really stiffing the taxpayers indiana pays about the same per mile for roads and their rural roads are rated 1 in the nation while we are 43 it is really disappointing that republicans in the legislature and administration have not pursued a zerobased review of all programs and expenditures we offered to set up a task force to do that abut the speaker and governor never responded until we cut the fat we cannot have more tax increases new taxes for roads only if the taxes put on anything else for roads is all being used only for roads cut out the waste  all of the taxes paid for gas and diesel need to go to pay for roads not schools and revenue sharing whose stupid idea was that all this talk about light rail and rapid transit bus lines needs to stop no more grants for stupid projects thought up by mdot those bureaucrats sit in their offices dreaming of ways to spend money money we don t have they need to be fired no more money until the taxes we give them are spent with common sense i am sick of everyone in power thinking of stupid ways to spend my money including the legislature governor department heads sheri harte willis  time have the legislature raise taxes increase the gas tax fix the roads  