Today Volkswagen announced that they will not be building a new car factory in Michigan. They opted to Tennessee instead. According to the article: Chattanooga won the site because of incentives and tax breaks offered by Tennessee and better infrastructure, the person said. Alabama was a close second while Michigan had been out of...
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Tax Ourselves into Prosperity?
State government is having a tough time these days. The Governor and Legislature are arguing over how to close a supposed $940 million deficit for this fiscal year (which ends in September). But wait. As GR Pundit readers already understand, the way government budgets its money is different from how normal people and companies...
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Time to Repeal SBT
L. Brooks Patterson, the executive of Oakland County, announced during his state of the county speech last month that he was initiating a fundraising drive to get a repeal of the Single Business Tax on the ballot in November. It was announced today that he had raised enough money to begin the drive. The...
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State of the Statist
Governor Granholm’s State of the State speech was a surprising call for expansion of government, even for our current governor. According to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the governor called for 20 expansions of state government and only one reduction in state government. Apparently our governor has yet to take Economics 101. Michigan...
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