Replacing Michigan’s New Taxes With Budget Reductions: Curing $1.358 Billion in Overspending
With 55 Specific Recommendations Summary: 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.
Details: Match Rating: 50. Posted: Oct. 18, 2007. Type: Study.
Public Sector Unions — The New Tammany Hall Summary: Yesterday, I described an analysis performed by Mackinac Center scholars finding a correlation between public sector unionism, faster government spending growth and weaker state employment growth. The history and actual mechanism by which these sad outcomes have been realized were detailed last month in a Weekly Standard piece by professors Fred Siegel and Dan DiSalvo called, "The New Tammany Hall: Public sector unions have become a labor aristocracy — and they are bankrupting states and municipalities." Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Nov. 13, 2009. Type: General Article.
Pew Center Is Wrong on Michigan, Right About Trend Summary: A new report from the Pew Center on the States, Beyond California (pdf), erroneously suggests that Michigan's economic travails are due to the fall of the auto industry and the presence of what it characterizes as an "out of sync" tax system. Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Nov. 12, 2009. Type: General Article.
Senior Skip Day Summary: Today in Lansing: What state capitol demonstrations are a legitimate use of a school's resources and students and which are not? Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Nov. 10, 2009. Type: General Article.
What Price Information? Try $7 million Summary: $6,876,303.90, to be exact. That's what the Michigan Department of State Police is charging for more than two million pages of documentation I requested via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regarding the state's handling of federal homeland security grant money from 2002 to present. This is definitely a record for Mackinac Center FOIA requests. In fact, this may be a record for any FOIA request. Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Nov. 10, 2009. Type: General Article.
Where's the Love for Our Fiscally Conservative Governor? Summary: If one just looks just at the effect of her school budget cut actions and ignores the motivations, Gov. Jennifer Granholm looks like a fiscal conservative's hero right now. So where's the love? For that matter, where's the love for taxpayers from the 12 Republicans and 62 Democrats who voted yesterday to appropriate federal "stimulus" dollars plus money from proposed tax hikes to "undo" the Governor's school spending reductions? Details: Match Rating: 10. Posted: Nov. 6, 2009. Type: General Article.
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