a:3:{s:16:"field_story_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:1288:"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.<br />
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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.<br />
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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. <br />
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What they aren&rsquo;t telling you is that 7/10 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.<br />
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For an article on the new proposal to fix the roads and the Senate Joint Resolution click on the following links:<br />
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<a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130131/POLITICS02/301310394">http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130131/POLITICS02/301310394</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/jointresolutionintroduced/Senate/htm/2013-SIJR-J.htm">http://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2013-2014/jointresolutionintroduced/Senate/htm/2013-SIJR-J.htm</a><br />";s:6:"format";s:1:"2";}}s:17:"field_story_image";a:1:{i:0;a:10:{s:3:"fid";s:4:"3023";s:4:"list";s:1:"1";s:4:"data";a:3:{s:11:"description";s:0:"";s:3:"alt";s:0:"";s:5:"title";s:0:"";}s:3:"uid";s:1:"1";s:8:"filename";s:13:"pot_holes.jpg";s:8:"filepath";s:40:"sites/default/files/images/pot_holes.jpg";s:8:"filemime";s:10:"image/jpeg";s:8:"filesize";s:5:"96427";s:6:"status";s:1:"1";s:9:"timestamp";s:10:"1359655253";}}s:12:"field_weight";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:5:"value";s:2:"19";}}}