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Michigan

TexasTowelie

(112,179 posts) Thu Jun 14, 2018, 02:52 AM Jun 2018

Tricky language hides millions in pork in new Michigan budget

LANSING – The $56.8-billion state budget is passed by the Legislature and on its way to Gov. Rick Snyder, but taxpayers need a copy of the latest census — along with some detective work — to figure out everything that's in it.

Tens of millions of dollars for lawmakers' pet projects — sometimes known as earmarks and sometimes known as pork — are buried in the budget, obscured by hard-to-decipher language.

Projects approved by both the House and Senate on Tuesday range from $400,000 for a new fire engine in Plymouth Township to $360,000 to improve a road in an industrial park in Beaverton, in Gladwin County.

But those levels of details are not found in the budget bill itself.

Read more: https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/13/michigan-budget-hidden-projects/697209002/