Anti-tax crusader (Grover) Norquist to join fight against new U.S.-Canada bridge [View all]

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Source: Detroit News

October 3, 2012 at 3:07 pm
Anti-tax crusader Norquist to join fight against new U.S.-Canada bridge
By Chad Livengood
Detroit News Lansing Bureau


Lansing — Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel "Matty" Moroun has found an ally in one of the nation's leading crusaders against taxes and government spending in his own quest to stop construction of a publicly-owned bridge to Canada.

On Thursday, Americans for Tax Reform founder Grover Norquist is expected to formally endorse Moroun's Proposal 6 constitutional amendment requiring statewide votes for new international bridges and tunnels.

The Moroun-funded The People Should Decide campaign committee is asking for a "yes" vote in the Nov. 6 election on Proposal 6 as an effort to derail the New International Trade Crossing bridge project Gov. Rick Snyder has been pursuing. Canada has pledged to cover Michigan's $550 million share of the cost of a $3.5 billion span from Windsor to southwest Detroit, as well as plazas and roads connecting Ontario highways with Interstate 75.

Under an agreement Snyder and Canadian officials signed in June, Michigan's share of the construction costs would be recouped through tolls collected by an international authority set up to run the new span across the Detroit River.



Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20121003/POLITICS01/210030435#ixzz28GhrEXkK

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Looks like Grover is building new bridges ... to another billionaire!