… the current legislative session. A new scorecard from the Mackinac Center and MichiganVotes.org shows where every lawmaker came down on votes for corporate handouts that pit regular taxpayers against select business interests and developers. Michigan lawmakers have authorized the state to spend a lot …
… comments made by supporters of corporate handouts about how they need … between the states over corporate handouts. States could give … the comments in support of corporate handouts dating back to 1985: … a very heated fight for corporate headquarters. In the world … created the appearance of ‘corporate pay-to-play.’ ‘I question …
… (the fifth in the past 4 years) and the uncertainty of the state going forward. The company has formed an exploratory team to consider moving the corporate headquarters. The WSJ writes: Democrat Dannel Malloy, the nation’s worst Governor since Pat Quinn lost in Illinois, quickly replied that he’s open …
… Their latest gambit is a corporate handout bill that would allow … Economic Growth Authority corporate welfare program. Scholarly research … sold as a way to lure a big corporate location from outside the … estimates that 75% to 98% of corporate decisions on relocation, … creative spin doctoring. Corporate subsidy programs are terribly …
… latest gambit is another corporate handout bill that would allow … Economic Growth Authority corporate welfare program. Scholarly research … sold as a way to lure a big corporate location from outside the … estimates that 75% to 98% of corporate decisions on relocation, … creative spin doctoring. Corporate subsidy programs are terribly …
… campaign ad from U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin criticizes her opponent Tom Barrett, a state senator from Potterville, for voting against a $1 billion corporate welfare slush fund. “Thousands of jobs, gone,” is what she assumes would happen without the subsidies. She’s putting too much faith in this kind of favoritism, …
… public safety – and toward more special deals for large corporations – for decades. It fails to resolve concerns about refilling resources for corporate welfare because the current generation of state legislators will still have to pay for future incentives from the state’s General Fund. Under the SOAR …
