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Wow people are going crazy around here this morning. Michigan already has the 5th highest gas tax in the USA and is .18 cents a gallon above the national average. This new tax proposal will put Michigan in the #1 spot by far. I guess if we can`t get to #1 in football at least we will be #1 in something.
LANSING – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will propose in her Tuesday budget a 45-cent-per-gallon increase in the fuel tax — phased in over a one-year period — to raise more than $2 billion to fix the state's roads.
Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Whitmer, said the first 15-cent increase would take effect Oct. 1, with another 15-cent hike on April 1, 2020, and the third increase on Oct. 1, 2020.
When fully implemented, the proposed tax hike would increase the cost of a fill up up between $7.00-$9.00 dollars per tank.
Whitmer's proposal is expected to be a tough sell in a Republican-controlled Legislature that barely passed a much more modest hike in the fuel tax — 7.3 cents for regular fuel — in 2015.
Michigan taxes on fuel are already fifth-highest in the nation, and about 18 cents per gallon above the national average, largely because Michigan is one of a few states that applies its sales tax to fuel, according to a recent study by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan.
While Whitmer's proposal would appear to vault Michigan into first place in the nation in terms of fuel taxes, Brown said the governor would also propose unspecified measures to lessen the impact of the proposed increase on the pocketbooks of Michiganders.
Laura Cox, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and former chair of the House Appropriations Committee, slammed the proposal as "a $2-billion tax increase that will break many Michiganders' budgets."
Cox said Michigan deserves "real solutions on this critical issue, not a tax and spend solution which places the burden on the state's already overtaxed families.”
In seeking more than $2 billion for needed road repairs, Whitmer has three primary options — higher fuel taxes, higher vehicle registration taxes and fees, higher license plate taxes.
Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, confirmed Monday that borrowing is not part of Whitmer's plan. He would not comment on whether a hike in registration fees will also be proposed.
Whitmer is to present her road funding plan to a joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriations committees at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
A bipartisan group of former state lawmakers recently proposed a 47-cent-per-gallon hike in the fuel tax, but that was over nine years not one year.
LANSING – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will propose in her Tuesday budget a 45-cent-per-gallon increase in the fuel tax — phased in over a one-year period — to raise more than $2 billion to fix the state's roads.
Tiffany Brown, a spokeswoman for Whitmer, said the first 15-cent increase would take effect Oct. 1, with another 15-cent hike on April 1, 2020, and the third increase on Oct. 1, 2020.
When fully implemented, the proposed tax hike would increase the cost of a fill up up between $7.00-$9.00 dollars per tank.
Whitmer's proposal is expected to be a tough sell in a Republican-controlled Legislature that barely passed a much more modest hike in the fuel tax — 7.3 cents for regular fuel — in 2015.
Michigan taxes on fuel are already fifth-highest in the nation, and about 18 cents per gallon above the national average, largely because Michigan is one of a few states that applies its sales tax to fuel, according to a recent study by the Citizens Research Council of Michigan.
While Whitmer's proposal would appear to vault Michigan into first place in the nation in terms of fuel taxes, Brown said the governor would also propose unspecified measures to lessen the impact of the proposed increase on the pocketbooks of Michiganders.
Laura Cox, chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party and former chair of the House Appropriations Committee, slammed the proposal as "a $2-billion tax increase that will break many Michiganders' budgets."
Cox said Michigan deserves "real solutions on this critical issue, not a tax and spend solution which places the burden on the state's already overtaxed families.”
In seeking more than $2 billion for needed road repairs, Whitmer has three primary options — higher fuel taxes, higher vehicle registration taxes and fees, higher license plate taxes.
Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the Department of Technology, Management and Budget, confirmed Monday that borrowing is not part of Whitmer's plan. He would not comment on whether a hike in registration fees will also be proposed.
Whitmer is to present her road funding plan to a joint meeting of the House and Senate appropriations committees at 11 a.m. Tuesday.
A bipartisan group of former state lawmakers recently proposed a 47-cent-per-gallon hike in the fuel tax, but that was over nine years not one year.
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