Michigan Votes Forum

Introduced in the House on March 24, 2010, to give local "local development financing act" authorities the power to borrow and spend on infrastructure projects and subsidies that promote the use of mass transit and are within a half mile of a transit station. The debt is paid by "capturing" a portion of increased property taxes that would otherwise be available to local governments to pay for their own operations (or for tax cuts)

The vote was 80 in favor, 24 opposed and 3 not voting

(House Roll Call 412 at House Journal 0)

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 Ummm, hello if anyone in this state wanted more mass transit they would use it and the free market system would step up to fill the gap! Enough with the taxes. You call yourself a republican - you should be ashamed of yourself.

I thought when we had had enough of TIFA's and their many ways to take from local governments, the program would be ditched by our wise senators and representatives. But no, they are thinking up useless ways to add more debt to our already impossible load. Sunset the TIFA's. We have one in Gaylord, and there was no one watching how the Director was spending the money. They spent it on themselves and dinners out etc, etc..Now we have a bunch of lights downtown and no one around to see them. I wonder how that money would have been spent if had been in the local government and not a TIFA. Oh, the director went to jail.