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

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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