A proposed tax hike aimed at improving Michigan's transportation infrastructure and schools is heading to voters.
The Michigan Legislature has put a sales tax increase on the May statewide ballot as part of a road funding plan. Boosting the 6 percent sales tax to 7 percent is the centerpiece of a plan to pump $1.3 billion more into transportation infrastructure and at least $300 million more into schools.
The required two-thirds of members in the Republican-dominated Senate backed the constitutional amendment shortly aftern midnight. The House approved the measures near dawn today.
Lawmakers passed a significant increase in the state's per-gallon gasoline tax that only will take effect if voters approve the sales tax hike along with the elimination of the sales tax that drivers pay at the pump.
