Miller responds to State of the State

In response to Wednesday’s State of the State address by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, State Rep. Aaron Miller released the following statement:

“While I am more than happy to work with the governor on a realistic road funding solution, paying for it on our credit card is not the answer.

“Road-improvement bonds will be detrimental to our children’s futures and they won’t be paving our roads in rural Michigan. As a parent of three young girls, I’m disappointed by the governor’s decision to saddle our children with that debt. We’ve been lamenting the bonding of the Engler and Granholm administrations for years now, so why would we enlist this terrible idea again?  It was bad then and it will be bad now and into the future.”

Miller said he would urge Whitmer to work with legislators to find real solutions that fund all of the roads in Michigan.

Miller concluded by saying, “if we use bonds now, someone years from now will surely ask in frustration about what on earth we were thinking.”