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 />