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Eight Is a Start: Where Gov. Granholm's Budget Recommendations and the Mackinac Center's Agree

By Jack McHugh, published on June 8, 2009

Contents

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  • Executive Summary
  • Foreword
  • How We Got Here
  • The Governor’s Eight Recommendations
    • Eliminate supplemental financial support for the horse racing industry
    • Eliminate state fair subsidies
    • End state support to the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs
    • Eliminate the Department of History, Arts and Libraries
    • Return enforcement of state wetlands protection to the federal government
    • Cut state subsidies for university operations
    • Eliminate the Office of Drug Control Policy and downsize the Office of Services to the Aging
    • Cut funding in half for the Michigan State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Program
  • The Road Ahead
  • Endnotes
ISBN: 1-890624-84-5, SKU: S2009-03

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