Is is drunk driving or Michigan roads?
Mar 6, 2019 10:11:12 #
Mar 6, 2019 10:14:50 #
My husband commented that I might get stopped as I avoided the pot-holes approaching the only high bridge in Los Alamos (NM). I said at least I missed the pot-holes. Note: I don't dodge them when there is traffic near me.
Mar 6, 2019 10:33:13 #
billb800si wrote:
Michigans last gas tax increase was in 2015. The ... (show quote)
I was going to post this info, sure to suffer the slings and arrows of the Conservative majority that seems to hold stead over this list. I am glad you did it for me. I hate to pay taxes, just like anyone else. But 8 years of Republican rule has left Michiganders in a similar shape as Californians after years of Republican mismanagement: Jerry Brown had to take over a state deep in deficits and do the unfavorable job of raising taxes. After his great job, CA is in a lot better shape financially. We are now faced with that same thing in Michigan.
But to be sure, Repubs will blame all of this on the Democratic Governor. And to the original post, yes, our roads are crap...but not because we didn't keep paying to fix them. It's because the party in power diverted it from its intended use so they could give the 2% and corporations big fat tax breaks. Yet, for some unholy reason, our citizens continue to vote against their own best interests.
Mar 6, 2019 10:48:13 #
CWW
Loc: North Jersey
Jersey ain't much better, especially a town called Piscataway. Like the others, Jersey used all the vehicle taxes collected for other important expenditures. Don't ask what the expenditures were, you'll never find out. Keep the unwashed in the dark.....
Mar 6, 2019 10:56:07 #
SteveR wrote:
Or breaking an axle if driving your car?How can you walk a straight line without breaking an ankle???
Mar 6, 2019 11:39:33 #
2Dragons wrote:
Taxes collected for a specific purpose should have a separate account and used ONLY for the purposes collected and intended. But, there I go again, thinking logically when politicians absolutely do NOT!
Mar 6, 2019 11:50:38 #
Mar 6, 2019 16:08:34 #
hookedupin2005
Loc: Northwestern New Mexico
2Dragons wrote:
If Michigan is like many states they dump their gas tax money into a general fund that eats it up on everything but what it was intended. Taxes collected for a specific purpose should have a separate account and used ONLY for the purposes collected and intended. But, there I go again, thinking logically when politicians absolutely do NOT!
It is a disease that infects every politician the moment they are elected.
Mar 6, 2019 16:12:21 #
Fortunately, our newly elected governor who ran on "fixing the damn roads" intends to do it with a proposed 48¢/gal gas tax.
Mar 6, 2019 16:39:06 #
Mar 6, 2019 16:46:02 #
Our son lives west of Le Roy, so we've driven there. There is a strip between Galesburg and Peoria that it is dangerous to change lanes. There are deep holes.
My best friend bought a home in Florida where he is going to spend 6 months and one day there which makes him a citizen of Florida.
We are considering Tennessee.
My best friend bought a home in Florida where he is going to spend 6 months and one day there which makes him a citizen of Florida.
We are considering Tennessee.
Mar 6, 2019 17:52:49 #
Mar 6, 2019 17:54:18 #
raymondh wrote:
Fortunately, our newly elected governor who ran on "fixing the damn roads" intends to do it with a proposed 48¢/gal gas tax.
Then Ohio should feel fortunate that our new governor only wants 18 cents more.
Mar 6, 2019 18:04:13 #
Mar 6, 2019 18:12:42 #
Fotoartist wrote:
Now, the new governor of Mich. wants to raise gas taxes by 45 cents a gallon to fix them. You'll want to drive in Mich. even less then.
None of us in Mich. want to pay that tax, still waiting for the rest of the proposal to raise the price for the license plates!
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