According to Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, marijuana could help repair the state’s roads, but it would take a lot of it.
“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 on Thursday. She was referencing the state’s 10% excise tax on its newly legalized recreational weed industry—a portion of which is allotted for infrastructure repairs.
She remarked, “Every man, woman, and child would have to smoke about $2,500 of marijuana a year to fix our roads. And let’s be honest, at that level no one’s gonna care about the damn roads.”
Whitmer has instead proposed a $0.45-per-gallon gas tax to fund her state’s bad roads.
So pay more for gas, or start smoking a lot of weed? I think many would prefer the latter.
