They held a vote on the roads
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Originally Posted by
Atticus
As pro-business as Snyder was, the truth is the Republicans wanted the roads fixed too. Bad roads are bad for business. And yet, despite wanting the road fix, 8 years of a Republican Legislature and Republican Governor couldn’t get them fixed... because doing so would require a significant raise of taxes.
You can throw out all the tin-foil hat theories you want about how the roads are bad because of bad construction practices, or overweight trucks, or corruption, or insert theories here..., but the honest answer is if the road issue could have been addressed by any of these and not raising taxes, Snyder and the GOP would have done it.
That is where we are folks. And now the tax increase is especially high because, like a bad credit card bill, we as a state kept kicking the can and never fully paid it. I don’t like the 45-cent hike either.... but also know that it is necessary.
They held a vote on the roads and it got voted down a couple years ago. Really you have to diversify how we are going to come up with more money for roads.