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- Top 25 Current Comments of 2007
- Capitalism’s Finest Film
- DEQ Adheres to Environmental Law in Kennecott Case
- CD of the Year
- Food for Thought
- Michigan Civil Service Commission Ruling Allowing State Agencies To Deduct PAC Contributions for Public-Sector Unions is in Conflict with State Law
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 18, 2007
- Changing Michigan’s Labor Climate Will Take Work
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, February-March 2008
- DNR Makes Incredible Find
- December 15: Bill of Rights Day
- Lawmakers Must Make Transformational Policy Changes Their Top New Year’s Resolution, Mackinac Center Analyst Says
- Michigan’s Diaspora: The Revealed Preference for Leaving
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 11, 2007
- MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
A review and analysis of important state legislative policy issues that do not always receive attention from the general media. Michigan Capitol Confidential will make it easier to keep tabs on your elected representatives in Lansing.
- State of Michigan Should Not Become Collection Agency for PACs
- David Littmann Discusses Gov. Granholm’s Change of Heart
- Mackinac Center Agrees With Governor That State Budget Cuts and Reforms Are Needed, Not Tax Hikes
- Michigan Needs Worker Freedom of Choice
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST December 4, 2007
- Water Agreement Not Right for Michigan
It would be bad for this state and bad for the Great Lakes were Michigan lawmakers to ratify Annex 2001 in order to placate the other Great Lakes states.
- School Boards Empowered to Save Insurance Dollars
The real answer to reducing the cost of health care for teachers and school employees is for school boards to utilize the advantages of competition.
- State Budget Is Business as Usual
The just-concluded budget saga demonstrates that the real priority is to preserve the government status quo, quite literally at all costs.
- Choice Leadership: The Story of Two Women
- Remembering Sojourner Truth
- Setting the Record Straight
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 27, 2007
- Firearms, Fat and Fresh Water
- The Opportunities of Education Tax Credits
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 20, 2007
- Restoring Balance to Labor Law
- State Budget Priority: Preserve Business as Usual
- Michigan Education Report (2007-04)
- MichiganScience No. 5
MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals.
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 13, 2007
- NLRB Takes a Stand for Worker Freedom
- Water Agreement a Bad Deal for Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST November 6, 2007
- “Who Funds You, Anyway?”
- Choice Leadership
Popular literature is full of praises for “the common man,” but as these two essays by Ben Stafford illustrate, it’s usually the uncommon men and women who make big things happen. Virginia Walden Ford and Alberta C. Wilson are too modest and focused on others to tell you themselves, but Ben makes it clear that many inner-city children and parents have benefited from the uncommonness of these two women. They are courageous, forward-thinking, can-do citizens. They understand the value of a good education and a strong character, and they have been willing to stand up for those values at no small expense to themselves.
- Budget Savings Can Replace Recent Tax Hikes
In the short term the need is for immediate savings to allow repeal of the destructive $1.3 billion tax increase adopted as the capstone to this year’s state budget debacle.
- Michigan Privatization Digest - October 30, 2007
- Tax Increases Harmful to Michigan’s Health
The budget agreement that passed in the dead of night on Oct. 1 will raise taxes on Michigan residents, businesses and service providers to the tune of $1.358 billion for the coming fiscal year.
- Supreme Court Decision Complicated, But Correct
Ironically, the Michigan Supreme Court is being criticized for a “political” result when that result comes from applying the long-recognized standing doctrine that is meant to keep the courts from engaging in political activity.
- Where’s the Crisis?
- State Budget Deal Shows “Lawmakers’ Budget Priority Was ‘Business as Usual,’” says Center’s senior legislative analyst
- Norval K. “Nub” Morey: In Memoriam
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 30, 2007
- Michigan’s Crisis and Opportunity
- MDE Earns Failing Grade in Rating Programs
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 23, 2007
- School Management Series
- Spending Cuts Can Offset $1.3 Billion Tax Hike
- Capitalism in the Capital
- 55 Specific Spending Reductions Would Allow Repeal of the $1.358 Billion in New State Taxes
- Replacing Michigan’s New Taxes With Budget Reductions: Curing $1.358 Billion in Overspending
With 55 Specific Recommendations
The Mackinac Center for Public Policy has regularly
recommended specific state spending reductions to
balance the state’s budget and improve Michigan’s
public policy. The following list shows how the state could
reduce spending immediately to help balance the state
budget if policymakers chose to forgo the projected
$1.358 billion in fiscal 2008 revenue from the recent
state income tax hike and the new sales tax on
certain services.
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 16, 2007
- Failing Children
- The Science of Changing the Future
- Principled Philanthropy
- Expanding Lansing’s Prevailing Wage Would Reduce Jobs, Hike Cost to Taxpayers
- Mackinac Center Resources on Michigan's Tax and Budget Debate
- Classics
- Anatomy of a Tax Hike Campaign
- Adopting a “Lean Government” Model for Michigan
- Who is Protected by “Consumer Protection?”
- The Edmonton Public Schools Story
Faced with budget battles, declining enrollments and tense contract negotiations, Michigan school leaders could seize upon the advice of a superintendent and educator who has faced the very same issues for 30 years and who now consults with school districts.
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 9, 2007
- Issues and Ideas Forum, October 9, 2007
- IMPACT Fall 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, October 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, October 2007
- Are Bus Fares Fair?
- Tax Hike Chronicle - Final Entry
- MICHIGAN CAPITOL CONFIDENTIAL
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Michigan Capitol Confidential, a new bimonthly publication of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Inside, you will find a review and analysis of important state legislative policy issues that did not always receive attention from the general media. Michigan Capitol Confidential will also make it easier to keep tabs on your elected representatives in Lansing.
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST October 2, 2007
- Melodies that Support the Market
- Sweet Home Alabama
If the trend of the last five years holds, a majority of right-to-work states will have higher per capita disposable incomes than Michigan by 2010, at which point Michigan will be the real right-to-work-for-less state.
- The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
I resolve to learn more about the principles of love and liberty so that I can convincingly defend them against the encroachments of power.
- Governor and Legislature Appear Unable To Judge Priorities
Sadly, however, the Legislature has ignored judicial recommendations that would promote meaningful long-term change.
- Health Savings
Accounts Could Save State $194 Million
- September 2007 State Budget Survey
- More Than Seven in Ten Likely Michigan Voters Prefer Spending Reductions to Tax Increases, According to Survey
- School Aid Savings
- Statewide School Contracting Could Save As Much As $500 million
- Prevailing Wage Memorandum
- Michigan Rankings on National Education Test Fall in 8th Grade, Stagnate in 4th;
Proficiency Scores Flat
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 25, 2007
- Students
Manipulated to Lobby for the Privileged
- Selective Moral Outrage
- Kent Herrick Joins Mackinac Center Board of Directors
- Prophets of Property
- Michigan Education Digest Daily with Analysis, September 2007
- Michigan Education Digest Daily, September 2007
- Political Drama
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 18, 2007
- Michigan “Job Churn” Figures Demonstrate Central Planning’s Folly
- Healthy Outlook
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 11, 2007
- Michigan Privatization Digest - August 31, 2007
- Effective Funding Increase from Competitive Contracting in Selected Michigan School Districts
- More at Stake in Budget Battle than Next Year’s Spending
- The Only Safe State Spending Bet
- Will Michigan Be “The Victors” Again?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST September 4, 2007
- Survey 2007: School Support Service Privatization Rises
Competitive contracting continues to be a popular management tool for improving services and for saving money, which can then be reinvested into classrooms. All indications are that it will continue to grow in popularity.
- Used-Car Dealer Regulations Kill Small Businesses
This law authorized a regulatory taking of the livelihoods of hundreds of small business owners who can no longer use their property in the way they had done previously.
- The Not So Good Life
By the standards of the last century, air quality today is excellent — notwithstanding the claims of environmental activists.
- Mackinac Center’s Labor Trilogy
- Private Property Rights Under Attack
- Squeaky Wheels Stifle Savings
- Model Language for Michigan Right-to-Work Amendment Released Today by Mackinac Center
- Mackinac Center Questions MEA Management
for Apparently Hypocritical Negotiations
With USO Union Workers
- Issues and Ideas Forum, August 29, 2007
- A Model Right-to-Work Amendment to the Michigan Constitution
This policy brief discusses several foundational legal concepts and sets forth model language for a legally sound right-to-work amendment to the Michigan Constitution.
- The Economic Effects of Right-to-Work Laws: 2007
Many states have given workers complete discretion to decline
membership in, and financial support of, a union that they individually oppose.
Enacting a right-to-work law abolishes agency fees and allows workers themselves to decide if a union deserves their financial support.
- Follow the Money
- Right-to-Work States Continue to Enjoy Significant Economic Advantages Over Michigan and Other Non-Right-to-Work States, According to New Report
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 28, 2007
- Prevailing Wage Costs Taxpayers $250 Million Annually, Reduces Construction Jobs, Primarily Benefits High-Wage Construction Workers
- The Effects of Michigan’s Prevailing Wage Law
Michigan’s prevailing wage law adds unnecessary costs to construction projects at taxpayers’ expense.
- Good Luck, Mike Bishop!
- NCLB Falls Short of Helping Parents
- Communicating Freedom to the Next Generation
- Mackinac Center Launches University Campus Project
- Back to School Shopping
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 21, 2007
- School Services Privatization on the Rise, According to Mackinac Center Survey
- Survey 2007: More Growth in School Support Service Privatization
Privatization is a time-tested management tool used by governments around the world. It can take many forms, but competitive contracting is the most prevalent in the United States whether in municipalities or within the realm of public education. In some regards, Michigan is a national leader in competitive contracting in education; in other areas it is a laggard.
- Private Companies Would Stamp out the Post Office
- Michigan Education Report (2007-03)
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 14, 2007
- Reporting the Seen and the Unseen
- Rules of the Game
- MichiganScience No. 4
MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals.
- Power and Responsibility: The Obligations of a Union
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST August 7, 2007
- Debate Workshops 2007
- Thinking Outside the Bars
- MBT: A More Burdensome Tax?
- School Support Service Privatization:
Getting it Right
Done right, privatization remains an effective management tool for school districts across Michigan.
- Workers’ Paychecks Need Further Protection
In order to prevent misuse of nonmembers’ money, right-to-work laws or an end to compulsory unionism is needed. Paycheck protection laws are better than nothing, but they certainly are not optimal public policy.
- High School Debate Workshops Overview
- Reach Out and Tax Someone
- Budget Hawks Should Think Outside the Bars
- Mackinac Center Analyst: Gov. Granholm’s Prison Proposal Puts Taxpayers First
- Baseball, Free Markets and Milton Friedman
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 31, 2007
- The Next Big Thing
- “A Rich Folks’ Roller Coaster”
- IMPACT Summer 2007
- Michigan Unions — Strong or Bloated?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 24, 2007
- School Money Primer
- Nobody Knows Who Can Cook
- Putting Families First
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 17, 2007
- Happy Birthday to the Northwest Ordinance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 10, 2007
- Michigan Needs Environmental Science Board
The MESB consists of an executive director and nine members appointed by the governor. The board has no paid staff and all members serve voluntarily.
- Intermediate School Districts: Innovations that are Past Their Prime
A far more substantive reform would be for Michigan to join a cadre of states that provide specialized services by giving parents greater options.
- Time to Reform Teacher Compensation in Michigan
Under the system defended by unions, an excellent teacher, whose students demonstrate significant learning gains, earns the same amount as the teacher who clocks in and then checks out.
- How To Avoid Raising Taxes
- School Employee Pension Reform the Key to Budget Problems
- Transporting Privatization
- Right-to-Work
- Songs of Freedom
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST July 3, 2007
- Behind the Smokescreen
- Artistic Expression
- Right-to-Work FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions About Right-to-Work
- Study: Mackinac Center Releases Comprehensive School Privatization Primer for Food, Bus and Custodial Services
- A Tribute to Hans F. Sennholz
- A School Privatization Primer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 26, 2007
- State Government Needs Structural Change, not Reorganization
- Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction
The observed shrinkage in state appropriations over the first half of the decade was actually a positive development: one that dampened, albeit modestly, the real relative economic decline of the state. Moreover, it calls into question a growth strategy based on expansion of higher education. Indeed, other results included in the econometric estimation suggest that a better growth strategy would be to put the entire Michigan state government on a diet in order to finance a reduction in the overall tax burden. While higher education expenditures are not growth-inducing, the evidence shows that tax reductions are.
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- Study: Revenues to State Universities in Michigan Remain High
- The Union Movement Goes Wobbly
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 19, 2007
- Who’s the Boss?
- Alarming Economic Statistics Scream Out Against Raising Taxes
- U.S. Supreme Court Decision Likely to Prevent Challenge to Michigan’s “Paycheck Protection” Law, Mackinac Center legal analyst says
- Book Review: Radicals for Capitalism
- Stuck in Reverse
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 12, 2007
- Michigan Needs Environmental Science Board
- Too Much Time on Their Hands
- Issues and Ideas Forum, June 7, 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST June 5, 2007
- The Ideas of March
- The Tax Hiker's Shopping Guide
If state lawmakers and the governor consider Michiganians more than mere cash cows, they should stop reading the “Tax Hiker’s Shopping Guide”...
- Money Well Spent?
When government employees are involved, there is a case to be made that agency fee is something that ends up costing taxpayers.
- Stealing from the Future
- What Really Determines School District Spending?
Professional advancement in a bureaucracy comes from increasing one’s budget, not from achieving more with less as it does in the private sector.
- Free-Market
Movie Moments, Part II
- The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love
- $19 Billion in School Revenues Described in New “Michigan School Money Primer”
- Stealing from the Future
- A Michigan School Money Primer
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 29, 2007
- They Can’t Ignore Us
- Free-Market Movie Moments, Part I
- Right-to-Work Right Now
- Michigan Education Report (2007-02)
- Savings from School District Consolidation Would be Limited
and Difficult To Capture, Study Finds
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 22, 2007
- A “Way Forward” for Michigan?
- School District Consolidation, Size and Spending: an Evaluation
- MichiganScience
Sponsors Writing Contest for Students
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 15, 2007
- Same Old Song and Dance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 8, 2007
- Wrestling with Reality
- Weather, Water and Trees Highlighted in Latest MichiganScience Magazine
- Paying More to Protect the Privileged
The dirty little secret is that Michigan pays too much for the government it gets.
- Court Ignored Sound Science in Carbon Dioxide Ruling
Consensus is actually antithetical to the proper conduct of scientific inquiry.
- Say YES! to Right to Work!
Today’s labor markets look nothing like those of 75 years ago.
- MichiganScience No. 3
MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals.
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST May 1, 2007
- Targeted Tax Breaks: “How’s That Working for You?”
- Michigan Privatization Digest - April 25, 2007
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 24, 2007
- Your Getting Rich Costs Me Nothing
- Make Earth Day About Science, Not Unfounded Fears
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 17, 2007
- Tax Day
- Study: Michigan’s Road System Needs Both
Reforms and Dollars
- Road Funding: Time for a Change
- Supreme Science?
- Property and Law: The Best Hope for China
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 10, 2007
- IMPACT Spring 2007
- Bigger Taxes or Smaller Government — Let the People Decide
Many suspect that the political establishment has elevated government and school employees into a privileged class to be protected at all costs from economic changes that affect everyone else.
- Taken For a Ride
It bears noting that any park or other amusement facility that must rely on tax dollars, rather than private investment, is by definition not viable and thus unworthy of taxpayer support.
- Fast-Growth States Have Lower Taxes — Not More Grads
The 10 states with the lowest tax burdens are growing at an average rate of 2.6 percent — almost double Michigan’s growth rate and 34 percent faster than the national average.
- Foreword
- Reciprocity Can Reduce the Organ Shortage
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST April 3, 2007
- “Student Activity Fees” an Offense to Free Speech
- Freedom in Fiction Prize
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 27, 2007
- Kennecott and Other Businesses Harmed by DEQ
- A Tribute to a Polish Hero
- Contradictions and Spurious Conclusions
- Need a Penny? Take Many
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 20, 2007
- Medicaid Reform Around the States: The Good the Bad and the Ugly
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 19, 2007
- Health Care Made Easy
- Environmental Regulations Collide with Alternative Energy
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Davenport v. Washington and Washington v. Washington Education Association
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 13, 2007
- Unemployment
Tax
- Taken For a Ride
- The Estate Tax Strikes Back
- How Healthy is Health Care?
- State Excise Tax Promises More Job Losses
- Tax Changes in Michigan: Measuring the Effects of Expanding the Sales Tax to Services
- Comerica Bank Announces Move to Dallas
- Study: 19,000 Michigan Jobs Jeopardized
by Proposed 2 Percent Excise Tax on Services
- Potential Per-Pupil Savings Resulting from Health Benefits Changes Made in Michigan School Districts
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST March 6, 2007
- Issues and Ideas Forum, March 5, 2007
- Renaissance Center Brought No Renaissance
Despite all of the glitz and lofty rhetoric associated with major building projects, people continue to flee the city.
- State of Michigan: Best-Run or Best-Protected?
The yearly cost of policing the state’s highways could be reduced by more than $60 million by switching state police patrol duties to local sheriff’s deputies.
- Road Funding: Time for a New Direction
The best option for finding new road money is for the Legislature and governor to get serious about spending a lot less on things in state government that are far less important.
- Hot Enough For You?
- Michigan Privatization Digest - March 5, 2007
- Another Kind of Tax
- Mackinac Center Amicus Curiae Brief in Heaphy v. Department of Environmental Quality
- Card Check, Binding Arbitration and Employee Free Choice
- A Collective Bargaining Primer
Collective bargaining determines not only the quality and responsiveness of a school district’s teachers and support personnel, but the amount of money remaining to school board members to benefit the children under their care. Thus, while labor negotiations may sometimes feel remote from the process of helping children learn in the classroom, the results of this bargaining often affect a school board’s ability to implement educational policies.
This book is designed to assist school board members in understanding the basic principles and laws of collective bargaining, including some of the major substantive and procedural challenges facing Michigan school boards. In addition, the text is full of quotations from school board members and other education professionals concerning their experiences with collective bargaining and school employee unions. The combination of informational content and personal reflections provides new insights to school board members — and to policymakers, journalists and the general public, as well.
- Market Economics in the Workplace
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 27, 2007
- Michigan Cannot Afford a Sales Tax on Services
- March 31 Deadline for Public School Union Decertification Petitions*
- Michigan Education Report (2007-01)
- Issues and Ideas Forum, February 2007
- “Invest” Means Taking Your Money
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 20, 2007
- Our Future Depends On Remembering Our Past
- A Man Who Knew How Precious Life and Liberty Are
- School Boards and Teachers Should Address Their Own Insurance Issues
- Malthus, Mating and Money
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 13, 2007
- Eight Ways to Save
- Organized Labor and the Secret Ballot
- Déjà Vu All Over Again
- Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s 2007 State of the State Address
- What Price Government?
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST February 6, 2007
- Mackinac Center Tally of Proposed Government Expansions and Limitations
in State of the State Address Available Tuesday Night
- A Movie No One Should Miss
Wilberforce endured and overcame every obstacle imaginable, including ill health, death threats, derision from his colleagues and defeats almost too numerous to count.
- Legislators: Listen to Detroit Parents
Parents and community groups must play an important role in increasing support for charter schools.
- Doom for Whom?
When politicians and their lieutenants prophesy doom if spending is cut, it pays to question what they define as “doom,” and for whom.
- They Say “Invest,” But They Mean “Spend”
- Public Officials Using Tax Dollars
To Lobby for Higher Taxes
- Using Taxes To Lobby for Taxes
- Students for a Free Economy
- Powerful Force
- Landfill Capacity and Ballast Water Treatment
Headline Latest Issue of MichiganScience
- MichiganScience No. 2
MichiganScience is a Mackinac Center quarterly magazine that helps meet the need for accurate and accessible information about the increasingly complex scientific issues confronting voters and lawmakers. The magazine reflects the idea that even the most technical scientific policy issues can be discussed with lively prose and compelling visuals.
- Michigan Municipal Solid Waste Landfills Waste Disposed and Remaining Capacity
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 30, 2007
- SEMCOG’s Crazy Train
- Today’s Announcement of Decline in Michigan’s Union Membership “Dramatically Highlights” Need for Right-To-Work Laws
- Getting the Teachers Union on Board for Reform
- Socrates and the Minimum Wage
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 23, 2007
- Around the State 2007-01
- Higher Education and Economic Development
- Legislators Should Do No More Harm To Michigan
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 16, 2007
- Lansing Businesswoman Receives Mackinac Center
“Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor Award”
- Elected School Boards or Unions: Who Rules the Roost?
- Tax Hikes Could Hasten Michigan’s Exodus
- “Tax, Spend and Borrow”
- U.S. Supreme Court Oral Arguments Today Suggest Unions Could Lose in Key Cases Involving Use of Union Fees for Political Causes, Says Center Legal Analyst
- Michigan Leads the Nation in Outbound Moves
- Michiganvotes.org Helps Track Legislator Attendance
- MICHIGAN EDUCATION DIGEST January 9, 2007
- New Year’s
Resolutions for the Michigan Legislature
- The Difference One Can Make (Monograph)
Character saves lives, as the story of Nicholas Winton teaches us. It also defines each one of us as a person and in the process, shapes entire nations and determines their course. This is why the Mackinac Center for Public Policy has devoted talent and resources to the character issue. Though much of our work focuses on specific public policy issues, we know that good policy ultimately derives from good character. That’s another way of saying that we shouldn’t expect government to be any better than the people it reflects. We hope that these two essays will help spark a revival of interest in the critical role that character plays in a free society.
- Lights Out?
- Michigan Tops Nation in 2006 Outbound Move Rate According to New United Van Lines Data
- New York Times Devotes Two Stories to Mackinac Center Training Program and Free-Market Movement
- Reed Discusses President Gerald Ford
- Stop Punishing Michigan Investors
What’s unique about state business taxes is the manner in which they target a narrow and highly desirable group — persons willing to invest in the state.
- From Worst to First: The Best Business Tax is None
For every dollar that employers must pay in corporate taxes to the state, they have one dollar less to disburse as wages to workers or as investment in growth.
- The People’s Power: Defending Representative Government
The arguments both for and against the OFIS rulings indicate that these decisions involve a genuine policy debate — something that should, under the Michigan Constitution, be decided in the Legislature.
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