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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
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
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