Michigan Municipal League suggests delivery tax to help fund local roads

Department of Transportation crew fill a pothole on a state highway. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Department of Transportation crew fill a pothole on a state highway. MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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Would you be willing to pay a new 50-cent tax per delivery – think Uber Eats dropping off your pizza or an Amazon van with your new I Love Detroit shirt – if the money was used to fix residential and neighborhood streets?

That’s an idea the Michigan Municipal League is floating to raise an estimated $275 million yearly to fix and maintain city, village and township roads.

Although there is no…