This year's primary ballot will ask you about taxes

Michigan Public | By Stateside Staff

Published May 7, 2014 at 4:10 PM EDT

The state used to collect taxes on things like the machinery in manufacturing plants. When that away, some cities lost revenue.

The upcoming August primary ballot will feature something not usually seen on August primary ballots: a statewide ballot proposal, something we haven't seen in August since 2002.

This ballot proposal will ask you to decide the fate of a reform of Michigan's industrial personal property tax, but there is a pretty significant hurdle that backers have to face: that icky little three-letter word – tax.

Chris Gautz, reporter for Crain's Detroit Business, joined us to talk about all this.

*Listen to our interview above.