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Taxes Have Made New York Into an Empire of Cigarette Smuggling
New York can’t keep tobacco, drugs and other contraband out of its prisons and jails. How does it expect to stop smugglers from finding ways to bring untaxed cigarettes into the state?
Todd Nesbit, Assistant Professor of Free Enterprise at Ball State University, and Michael LaFaive, Senior Director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative
National Review
Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer Rewrites Her Covid-Response History
As the fog of war over state governments’ foolish all-out battle against a coronavirus slowly lifts, we must keep an accurate accounting of their unprecedented restrictions of some of our basic civil rights.
Michael Van Beek, Director of Research
The Wall Street Journal
Michigan’s Surprise Tax Cut Survives
The small cut will save the average family about $130 a year, according to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Since the state’s income tax is flat, every taxpayer will get a cut.
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Detroit Free Press
Michigan teachers union, health plan pay $226K over alleged COVID-19 loan violations
The Mackinac Center last week also said the MEA will pay its attorney fees and defended its claim. “They took these funds, for which they were clearly ineligible, while shuttered restaurants, stores, other businesses and their workers struggled to stay afloat,” Mackinac Center President Joseph Lehman said in a statement.
Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press Washington Correspondent
USA Today
Michigan posts ‘closed for business’ sign to please unions. Biden wants the same for US.
Supporters of right-to-work states say they generally boast lower unemployment, increased population gains and stronger job and household income growth. If the law is overturned, Steve Delie, director of labor policy at the Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy, says he “would expect the opposite to occur.”
Ingrid Jacques, Columnist at USA Today
The Wall Street Journal
Michigan Moves to Repeal Right to Work
The Mackinac Center studied the policy last year, a decade after its enactment by former GOP Gov. Rick Snyder. The think tank found that right to work increased employment in several heavily unionized industries, such as manufacturing and construction.
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