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At the beginning of this month, Whitmer had a street plan of 3 billion US dollars, which required a combination of tax increases and spending cuts, but did not contain many details, including the question of whether it would like to increase the 6% corporation tax of the state.

In her speech on Wednesday evening, Whitmer admitted a competing plan by the house spokesman Matt Hall, R-R-R-R-SHIP, and found that “a few different plans out there, including mine, and I know that none of them is perfect”.

However, Whitmer returned to her campaign promise from 2018 to repair crumbling roads, and said that no plan was “wrong” – and not “inactivity”.

For the Republicans, Whitmer said that a long -term solution should contain “new, fair sources of income”. Whitmer said for Democrats, said that cuts “must be part of the solution”. And for companies, Whitmer said: “We cannot put this on the back of the middle class.”

“So that we are all part of the solution, we all have to compromise, and that’s how it should be,” she added.

In conversation with reporters after Whitmer’s speech, Hall said that he had a positive relationship with the governor, but does not support her street plan.

“I put a plan on the table that would repair our streets without increasing taxes by priorizing roads to companies,” said the GOP leader of the house. “GOV. Whitmer … your plan increases taxes. We can do it without increasing taxes … and I intend to show her how to do it. ”

While Whitmer devoted most of her speech to the future -oriented promises, she also whirled up after the success of the past.

Once she claimed that Michigan had been repeatedly appointed “Top 10 state for business”, his gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 35%, added around 40,000 automobile jobs since taking office and collected the medium -sized household income.

It is true that Michigan has created several national top -10 lists in recent years, including a ranking No. 9 in the CNBC report of last year’s CNBC report in “Top countries for companies” and No. 10 in the annual business climate use of the location selection.

But closer to home, the managing directors of Michigan took 27th place in the country for economic prosperity and said “significant work”.

The GDP of the state, as Whitmer stated, rose by almost 35%, but their auto job numbers seemed far away – or based on jobs that companies have promised but not actually created.

According to the latest federal data, Michigan added 16,500 jobs for car manufacturers since Whitmer accepted the office in office in January 2019, but lost 20,900 car parts workplaces. Combined workplaces for cars and parts declined during the term of Whitmer.

Remarkable absent in Whitmer’s speech: A reference to the strategic Outreach attraction and reserve funds (Soar), a corporate incentive program that the governor has committed as a means of bonding business investments.

The financing of the Soar Fund will expire this year, and Whitmer’s budget proposal only includes a seat owner of 200 US dollars in order to maintain negotiations with the legislator.

Instead, Whitmer used the speech on Wednesday evening to request 2 billion US dollars for the “construction, purchase or fixation” houses of 2 billion US dollars, and added that the state should “create the largest residential complex in the history of Michigan next year.

However, the details were sparse, and it was not immediately clear whether Whitmer asked the legislator for more money. In the speech of the past year, she advertised a push last Years push of 1.4 million US dollars, but that was an existing financing, no new money.

Nevertheless, Housing has a priority for Whitmer for Whitmer, who announced a 10 million dollar program last month to work with employers to fix the nationwide lack of living from Michigan.

“If you do this, more than 10,000 construction work, lower costs and more people will help to realize the American dream,” she said, adding that Michigan is too short nationwide, which calls for the need for the “building of baby building”.

Whitmer returned to economic development and said that she wanted to reform business license and license processes, which could also contribute to combating the state’s affordable apartment.

The governor said that she would instruct all state departments and agencies that have missed their deadlines “to” reimburse all permissible fees that we can do according to the law “.

“But the reality is that I can only reimburse a handful of executive measures alone,” she said, asking for legislators to help with other reforms. “In order to allow and save a lot of time and money, we have to change state law.”

Whitmer also called for the honor of trade licenses, the entrepreneurs more flexibility, optimized reporting requirements and eliminated what they refer to as “double exams” in order to accelerate the approval process.

The governor’s initiative to reimburse the fees for permission was previously announced a week and won a certain praise from Hall, the GOP House leader, who said that he was “encouraged”, but suggested that the state will instead remove the fees as a whole or restore the latest increases.

“Instead of increasing the fees and then reimbursed them, we were only able to lower the fees or eliminate the fees,” said Hall on Tuesday. “So that would be a really positive thing.”