Early Poll Shows Little Support for Tax Hike

Governor Rick Snyder started his campaign to sell the sales tax increase from six to seven percent in his State of the State message, but new polling data is not very encouraging. A poll that came out yesterday shows a vast majority of Michigan voters would rather tax marijuana to fix the roads than raise the state sales tax to get the job done. According to the Survey USA Poll commissioned by the Michigan Medical Marijuana Report, only 43% support raising the sales tax to pay for roads. 49% opposed the hike and 8% were not sure. The poll shows 64% of Michigan adults would likely vote in favor of taxing and regulating Marijuana, as opposed to raising taxes across the board. 28% of respondents opposed regulating marijuana like alcohol, and 8% was not sure. The sales tax increase proposal will be voted on May 5th in a special statewide election.