Michigan Governor Says Every Man, Woman, and Child Needs To Smoke $2,500 Worth Of Pot A Year To Fix Roads

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer threw down the gauntlet on Thursday for Michigan residents who are both sick of the state’s abysmal road conditions, and also not nearly high enough.

“At its height, the taxes for marijuana will raise about $42 million dollar per year for infrastructure. We have a $2.5 billion dollar problem,” Whitmer said at the Mackinac Policy Conference, referencing the state’s 10% excise tax on its newly legalized recreational weed industry—a portion of which is allotted for infrastructure repairs.

After explaining that she gets asked about using marijuana funds to fix the roads so often, she ordered her staff to crunch the numbers, Whitmer issued her challenge:

MDarringer - 5/31/2019 4:21:37 PM

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Typical Democrat tactics of seeking to destroy prudent behavior. Turning people into potheads is how you then turn them into non-producing sycophants sucking off the government's teat and voting as they are told.

PUGPROUD - 5/31/2019 4:27:45 PM

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Her comments were meant to throw the issue back at the people who were claiming the roads are bad as a means of deflecting away from the real issue of bad fiscal management by democrat legislature and herself.

MDarringer - 5/31/2019 6:08:51 PM

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She's a stupid garden tool.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/31/2019 7:18:32 PM

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The core problem most Americans don't see is there simply is not enough tax revenue to go around. The structure is all wrong. Why are you paying 4X the property tax I pay on a same size house in a nice area? Because there are no sales or sin taxes. The income tax is too low. There are too many loop holes for the rich and for business. And each election people preach lower taxes to get elected. And trillions are spent on wars and off the book black programs that nobody knows about. In a race to the bottom you end up with pot holes and water that can make you sick and schools that are falling apart. The script needs to be flipped. America can do better.

MDarringer - 6/1/2019 11:59:48 AM

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There is PLENTY tax revenue to go around if you don't waste it on lazy people who refuse to work and who live their lives hell bent on being constantly knocked up. Cut lazy people off welfare and there would be a surplus.

skytop - 6/1/2019 7:09:51 PM

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Obviously spoken by a lame brain liberal. Gretchen Whitmer has a turd siting inside of his skull.

Moo1 - 6/3/2019 8:13:30 AM

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Time for everyone to get lit. ... .. sure this is going to end well.