Gov. Rick Snyder wants to double vehicle registration fees to help pay for road work. Another $120 per vehicle? C'mon.
That's a tough sell because most of us don't appreciate the need for road construction -- not until a bridge collapses, as happened on a Minnesota freeway in 2007. A collapsed bridge on I-94, that would get our attention.
Part of the reason we distrust orange pylons and all they represent is that this state tolerates ridiculously poor work ethic from the road crews. They work one day, but not the next. An expensive electronic road sign warns us that an exit is closed ahead, but we get up there and find the exit's open. So the next time we don't believe what the sign says only to find that the exit is indeed closed.

Then we hear the road crews earn a bonus when they get a job done ahead of schedule. That's bullcrap. Just pay them a flat fee. And if they don't get it done on time then they get docked.

Of course, we could all drive smaller cars and drive slower. That would cause less wear and tear on the road. And if we hit a pothole at 50 mph it wouldn't be as jarring as 70 mph. But that's not feasible. We want to drive gigantic pickups at 90 mph. If that's the case we'd better be willing to pay.
And once again we have a politician calling a "tax" a "fee."