Snyder's Folly

Today, Michigan will start down another dead end of public financing of infrastructure, it appears as if we will be paying for a new bridge to Canada. Today's announcement in Windsor and Detroit appears as if the bridge is a foregone conclusion.  We  strongly disagree.


With bridge and tunnel traffic running way below capacity, the addition of a new structure is foolhardy.  Additionally, when you add the fact that the current Ambassador Bridge  owner is willing to build the new span and pay for it privately, we begin to wonder if there is another reason.  We do not know what it is, but tying up billions on a new crossing which will not pay for itself is the financial mismanagement.


We expected more sanity from Snyder but maybe having a bridge named after you is more important than keeping the state on good financial footing.


Conservative Tom

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