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March 21, 2013

Anti-tax states warm to higher gas taxes

  • Officials in some states say gas taxes are a lesser evil because the money builds infrastructure, which helps boost economic development.
    • By DAVID EGGERT
    Associated Press

    LANSING, Mich. — Michigan's venture capitalist-turned-governor, Rick Snyder, needed just five months in office to slash his state's business taxes. Elected on the downside of the recession, he was among a crop of new Republican leaders eager to show they could boost their states' ailing economies with lower taxes.

    But two years later, confronting one of the automobile-addicted state's most visible problems — crumbling roads — Snyder has roiled conservatives by calling for a major tax increase.


     
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