From The Midwesterner
After six years with no real solutions, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a $2.75 billion plan to “fix the damn roads” that can be summarized in two words: more taxes.
The governor wants $470 million in new taxes on marijuana, $1.6 billion in taxes on tech companies like Amazon, Meta and TikTok, tax increases on heavy trucks, and possibly a corporate tax increase, The Detroit News reports.
Those proposed tax increases are in addition to others floated by Big Gretch in her record $83.5 billion budget request last week, which included $57 million in tax hikes on vapes and other nicotine products, as well as a 1,288% increase in fees on trash collectors that’s expected to generate another $80 million.
