LANSING (WKZO) — The Michigan State Senate has approved the outline of a road funding bill needing the Lt. Governor to push a controversial 15-cent hike in the gas tax over the top.
The other controversial measure, wiping out the Earned Income Tax Credit never came to a vote.
Approved but not spelled out, 700-million dollars in general fund cuts that will be shifted from existing budgets to roads.
There is still a lot of work to do, but it will wait until after a mid-summer, Fourth of July recess for the Senate.
Conservative State House Republicans have stubbornly resisted any proposals to raise taxes to fix the roads, and that is exactly what the Senate has narrowly approved.
It was that impasse that resulted in the failed road funding vote in March. History could be repeating itself.
