LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says that two Republican leaders from the state Legislature will present their solution for fixing the roads Thursday.
“I’m going to be meeting with the two leaders tomorrow,” Whitmer, a Democrat, said Wednesday before a closed-door meeting with state employees. “I anticipate they’ll be putting some solutions on the table, finally.”
And there’s a new wrinkle that could force Michigan voters, not legislators, to raise taxes to fix the roads.
Back in 1994, then-Gov. John Engler, a Republican, got lawmakers to eliminate the property tax for funding schools. Then, instead of lawmakers voting to raise the taxes to replace that lost revenue, they put an income tax and sales tax hike on the statewide ballot and the voters picked the sales tax.
The governor is not taking a stance on something like that, not ruling it in or out.
“We’ll see,” she said.
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