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1% Tax for Transit Floated

The Detroit News reports that State Sen. Gilda Jacobs, D-Huntington Woods, said she'll ask lawmakers this month to authorize a referendum to change the state Constitution so counties would have the option of raising the state's 6% sales tax to 7% to pay for regional transportation and roads. In Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, the extra 1-cent tax per $1 would raise $503 million a year, according to the Citizens Research Council of Livonia. Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson has declared the measure DOA and says Oakland won't raise taxes for transit.

Read Plan would let counties raise sales tax for transit in the Detroit News
Also see Draining Michigan's Rapid Transit Swamp from the Michigan Land Use Insitute
Michigan Blog Watch: Everyone takes their turn (tagline: Everyone takes their turn being an idiot.. some people cut in line)

Posted/updated Apr 25, 2006
by Andrew McFarlane (Absolute Michigan)