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Snyder Makes Final Push For Voters To Approve Tax Increase

LANSING (WWJ/AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder and other Proposal 1 supporters are wrapping up a road tour urging voters to approve a tax increase that would generate $1.2 billion a year more for roads.

The Republican governor is making stops Monday in Lansing, Howell and Detroit. The vote is Tuesday.

Snyder was joined by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon and labor and church leaders at Eastern Market to promote the proposal's passage.

"This is something that we need to worry about today, because we haven't invested enough," Snyder said. "If you drive around Detroit, if you drive around and look under a bridge and you see plywood underneath that bridge, it's there to keep this [concrete] from falling on your vehicle."

Previous stops on the multicity bus tour have included Macomb County, Cadillac, Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo.

Snyder says that no one likes tax increases, but this one is needed to ensure safer roads.

"You can't know how the polling is going to go versus the actual vote," Snyder told WWJ Newsradio 950's Sandra McNeill. "If you were at an event like this today, you can see the energy of all support."

Critics say it would give money to special interests. Passage of the measure would allocate nearly $300 million to schools and $90 million to local governments.

If the constitutional amendment passes May 5, Michigan's 6 percent sales tax would increase to 7 percent.

 

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