  the grand road deal  it has taken over 3 years to get the ldquo grand road deal rdquo through the legislature but after a marathon session lasting 20 hours where the legislators were locked into chambers and convinced badgered bought traded or who knows by what other measures they have approved the road deal that ldquo we the people rdquo will finally have to approve in may of 2015 there is no question the roads are in dire need of repair but the question is whether the people of michigan are ready to have their taxes increased to cover the 160000000000 of tax debt that will be loaded onto their backs it seems that it would be more prudent to use some of 500000000000 of the money the legislative budget has increased over the last 4 years maybe we should take a serious look at whether we should be in the crony capitalism business by using the money we give to medc the strategic fund the 21st century job fund and to the film industry i thought republicans were suppose to be ldquo fiscal conservatives rdquo and believe in ldquo smaller government rdquo for an article on the ldquo grand road deal rdquo go online at  http wwwmlivecom lansingnews indexssf 201412 michiganlawmakersapproveroahtml 19  