 taxes fees for roads or none of the above  the governor and lansing lawmakers are looking at options to fix michigan rsquo s roads and bridges the plan would be to raise more than 1 billion a year the new revenue approach would let the voters decide what kind of taxes or fees they want to pay to maintain the roads but not whether they don rsquo t want either option one of the pieces of legislation senate joint resolution j is a proposed constitutional amendment that would raise the sales tax by 2 to 8 percent what they aren rsquo t telling you is that 710 of 1 of that new 2 sales tax wouldn rsquo t go to roads it would go to the ldquo michigan conservation and recreation legacy fund rdquo that has absolutely noting to do with roads for an article on the new proposal to fix the roads and the senate joint resolution click on the following links  http wwwdetroitnewscom article 20130131 politics02301310394 http wwwlegislaturemigov documents 20132014 jointresolutionintroduced senate htm 2013sijrjhtm 19  taxes fees for roads none the above  