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    Tag: MDOT

    Lansing Still Wants to Raise our Gas and Diesel Tax?


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Fri Oct 18, 2013 at 10:46:02 AM EST
    Tags: Slick Rick, Mr. 36%, Snyder, Ron Boji, MDOT, Robert Ficano, memory holes, Wayne County Business Development Corporation, John Rakolta Jr, Jail to Nowhere, Dan Gilbert, Feral Government, Michigan Strategic Fund, Affirmative Action Meets The Peter Principle, The Ed McNamara Machine, Mike Duggan, Rich Baird, Cronyism, Kevyn Orr, NERD Fund, Transparency, Michigan Banana Republican Party, Snydercaid, The Flim-Flam Man, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    The alleged Party of principle, strikes again.

    Gov. Rick Snyder today announced the appointment of Ron Boji, of Orchard Lake, to the state Transportation Commission.

    The six-member commission is the policy-making body for all state transportation programs.

    "Ron has enjoyed a distinguished career and I look forward to his contributions to this important commission," Snyder said.

    Hey, it's a Nerdy job but, somebody's got to do it...

    Yippie!  Federal road monies for Ron to run his fingers through.

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    Pure Penske


    By Corinthian Scales, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Thu May 30, 2013 at 11:47:37 AM EST
    Tags: Roger Penske, MEDC, Michigan International Speedway, $18.1M from 2008 to 2010, $1.2M in 2011, another $800000 for 2014, Roger Penske M-1 rail boondoggle, Billionaire Welfare, MDOT, needs to raise Gas Taxes and Registration Fees for road repair?, Puuure Michigan, Crony capitalism?, Corpratism?, Nah, just the Oligarch redistributing our Coerced Wealth, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    Our tax dollars at work...

    For some in this state who are enabled with stopping traffic connecting our Peninsulam Amoenam, the taxpayer trough is bottomless.  Not to mention the Federal handouts.

    Oh well... at least the dwindling Majority leadership got their jock-sniffing photo op.

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    Don't Raise MI Taxes Tour Coming to Your Neighborhood


    By Corinthian Scales, Section News
    Posted on Sat Apr 20, 2013 at 06:50:45 AM EST
    Tags: Rick Snyder, The Flim-Flam Man, Loves him some Prevailing Wage, Labor, MDOT, Filling the Pockets Of Friends, gas tax, registration fees, Sales Tax, Internet Sales, Inconsistency, Do we need to raise taxes, Legislature, Wayne Show Pony Schmidt, #BolgerSchmidtFraud, Randy Richardville, Roger Kahn SEIU-lite, Baby Ruth, One Tough Nerd PAC, Follow The Money, Centrists lost 2012, Primary, Republicans, 2014, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    What a shame it is that the Majority Party in Lansing, need guidance with their allowance like little children require, but thank God for the Good People at Americans For Prosperity looking out for us taxpayers in Michigan, with 13 tour stops around the state.

    First Tour stop:

    Don't Raise MI Taxes Tour Stop (St. Clair Shores)
    Americans for Prosperity - Michigan
    Tuesday, April 23, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
    Saint Clair Shores, MI

    Thank you for your ongoing efforts, Mr. Hagerstrom!  As noted from an mLive screed, it should be highlighted who the Legislator held responsible for the latest MIaGOP Tax Hike scheme on Michigan residents.

    A new plan taking shape in the state House, spearheaded by Republican [questionable] Rep. Wayne Schmidt of Traverse City, is expected to include increased gasoline taxes and registration fees. The proposal also would exempt fuel purchases from the state's six percent sales tax, which is collected at the pump but is not used to fix roads.

    Congratulations, District 104 voters.  Feeling dumb about sending Wayne "Show Pony" back for another term in Lansing, yet?  I doubt it.  But wait, there's more!

    House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, signaled support for the plan on Thursday, telling reporters that the legislature must "be committed to solving the full problem," including making sure that all taxes paid at the pump go toward roads.

    What were your words about raising taxes, Speaker Bolger?

    "Taxpayers should be the last place we look".  Never did look here, did you?  You can run, but you can't hide, Mr. Speaker.  Methinks, I hit the bullseye with the accuracy of both assessments.

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    MDOT: Needs More Money to Repair Roads


    By Corinthian Scales, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Mon Apr 15, 2013 at 03:35:06 PM EST
    Tags: Rick Snyder, The Flim-Flam Man, MDOT, Progressives, Pay up Suckers, U of M cronies, Big Ed, Student debt, STEM Amnesty, Foreign National Job Preference, H-1B Visas, EB-5 Citizenship, Cheap Labor, Underemployment, Obamacare, Medicare Expansion, BC-BS, Who Profits?, Follow the money, Ardesta, Stem Cell Research, Discera, ChiComs, MEDC, One Tough Nerd PAC, SB 59 Veto, Gas Tax, Sales Tax, Internet Sales Tax, Pension Tax, Homestead Property Tax Credit, One Term Nerd (all tags)

    But, MDOT has the funds necessary to put together propaganda films for entitlement mentality spoiled brats to get sh!tfaced while going to prom.

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    Low Information And White Elephants


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Sun Jan 27, 2013 at 04:57:26 PM EST
    Tags: Amtrak, Chicago, Corporatism, Cronyism, Detroit, Gifts, Maintenance, MDOT, Pontiac, Rail, Recalls, subsidies, Trains, Troy, Low Information Voters, White Elephants (all tags)

    Troy had the right idea, and the right Mayor.

    Once upon a time.

    Mayor Janice Daniels in December of 2011 led the opposition in the Troy City Council for an $8.5 million train depot for good reason.  Her opposition to a project that would be built with free money was framed with an understanding that nothing is truly free.  Even after the project was stripped down a month later, and re-presented for a couple million less, she held her ground, and looked at the bigger picture.  Ongoing expenses make the continuing use of the pusher-man's product not nearly as euphoric as when it was offered for free.

    The Troy City Council didn't get it, and the vote for the effort was shifted. Even in the face of the citizen commentary that was recorded as 11-7 in opposition to the transit center.  As RightMichigan.com poster Rougman pointed out at the time, its $5,500/sq ft cost was stripped down to $3,100/sq ft (a travesty for its cheapness) and the gold plated accoutrements would have to be withheld.

    "By shaving off 400 square feet the project's cost has been lowered significantly. That was some expensive square footage there--roughly coming in at $5,500 per square foot. The smaller and redrawn project will cost a mere $3,100 per square foot which I find absolutely alarming...what kind of slum are these bureaucrats trying to push over on us? No gold toilet seats? No granite counter tops?"

    Indeed.

    Continued below the fold.

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    Grand Blanc Township Is ELECTRIC!


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Sun Nov 27, 2011 at 10:33:00 PM EST
    Tags: Grand Blanc TWP, Subsidies, Electric, Electric Vehicles, Charging Stations, Volt, Leaf, Rascal, Michigan, Federal Grants, MDOT (all tags)

    Ahh the upside of accepting those federal monies. - H/T Joan Fabiano

    Electric car owners now get to be free loaders as an additional benefit of purchasing the Leaf, Volt or other eco-recommended units of transportation.  As Part of the problem with EV solutions has been the short distances they can travel, the feds have made sure seed money is there for charging stations. 8-10 hours of charging can now happen at the I-75/Dixie Highway carpool lot.

    And by golly it appears as though there will be no charge for the juice.

    "Grand Blanc Township, which already pays for the electricity lighting the carpool lot, will cover the electric cost for the charging station as well. Coulomb Technologies, Inc. provided the electric charger station and the Grand Blanc Community Fund paid for its installation. The project was started with money provided through a federal grant. "

    So while we as taxpayers in general have shoveled out the taxes to pay for the incentives for the automakers ability to sell the over-sized and costly little rascals, then paid for the grant to fund the set up of this little pitstop, Grand Blanc Township taxpayers get to subsidize the electricity to run other folks' stuff.

    Delicious.

    Huh, it sounds like a great campsite for RVs too.  Pack it up Good Sams, there's a new KOA in town.

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    Snyder Bridge Post Draws fire


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Thu Jun 02, 2011 at 01:51:50 PM EST
    Tags: Ambassador, Bridge, credits, Detroit, NITC, DRIC, federal, government, highway, MDOT, private, public, tolls, traffic, Windsor, Math (all tags)

    And rightly so.

    The image below the line is just the first salvo from both sides of the bridge issue.

    Its good to see the arguments made from the different perspectives. Plenty to be said about whether or not we actually pay for it in one way or another, but surprisingly no one yet doing what will ultimately provide the most accurate answer.

    The math equation.

    20,000 Crossings a day now.  Unless the Ambassador bridge is FORCED to close, then the traffic would split.

    Average ticket of $6 Gross $120,000/day (if the ambassador is FORCED to close) $44 Million a year

    Debt service (interest only) of $30 Million a year. Then add to this the cost of operations, ongoing liabilities (you know those pesky benefits) and maintenance.   An additional $30? $50 million? A year?  

    My goodness So who DOES pay for it when it doesnt even pay its bond?  mmmm?

    Its a math question..  Not even a difficult one.

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    Act Like A Republican?


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue May 31, 2011 at 08:55:03 AM EST
    Tags: Dick Morris, Rick Snyder, Ambassador, Bridge, credits, Detroit, DRIC, federal, government, highway, MDOT, private, public, tolls, traffic, Windsor (all tags)

    res ipsa loquitur

    Dick Morris says Rick Snyder should act like a Republican, and in the process draws out the hard core "re-distributionists."  Darrell Dawsey writes at MLive:

    Matty Moroun is rich enough. He doesn't need or deserve a second bridge. (Personally, I wish someone could take the first one from him, too.) Free enterprise is fine, but private citizens shouldn't be in the business of owning international border crossings. Our borders, and the economic and national security issues they generate, are a matter of public interest.

    God help us if that is the reason Snyder wants the bridge.  Dawsey's screed is something that appears often enough in the dankest corners of totalitarianism to keep us on our toes and sleep with an eye open. Always.

    Snyder's wishes of another bridge makes perfect sense in some ways, and little in others.

    He is a "Milliken Republican" which brings a brand of centrism that has too much in common with the Dawsey think, that government ought to have control of all things no matter how miserably they fail under government control. Detroit Schools? Detroit itself?  Perfect examples of Centrism allowing a minor scratch to develop into full blown gangrene.  Why not invite such catastrophe when given the opportunity?  Perhaps a little brick and mortar money poured into the patient's [amputation inviting] open sore infested hole will fix it?

    Maybe such things need to be questioned a little more thoroughly.

    More below

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