James M. Hohman, Director of Fiscal Policy

Whitmer for president?

Blog | December 1, 2025

What was Michigan’s budget fight about?

Blog | November 28, 2025

Mackinac Center Priorities Win in 2026 State Budget

IMPACT Magazine | November 13, 2025

Michigan lawmakers tackle a difficult problem

Blog | November 13, 2025

Watch out for the ‘net trap’ when looking at job numbers

Blog | November 11, 2025

Michigan budget deal: two steps forward, one step back

Blog | November 6, 2025

A look at governors’ track record on job growth

Blog | October 30, 2025

States win in corporate welfare pact

Blog | October 21, 2025

Road funding is now at record levels

Blog | October 20, 2025

‘Tax the Rich’ would hurt the rest of us

Blog | October 15, 2025

Why they want your money

Blog | October 1, 2025

Michigan to end its biggest business subsidy program

Blog | September 27, 2025

Leaders have solutions; they just need problems

Blog | August 29, 2025

Putting Liberty at the Heart of Labor Policy

IMPACT Magazine | August 28, 2025

Deny Digital Service Taxes

IMPACT Magazine | August 28, 2025

Michigan Economic Development Corp. is not developing Michigan’s economy

Blog | August 27, 2025

What cities are growing?

Blog | August 25, 2025

Have legislators learned their lesson about selective subsidies?

Blog | August 14, 2025

What is the budget dispute about?

Blog | July 31, 2025

Tax hike proposal is bad business

Blog | July 18, 2025

Which is growing faster: Core cities or their suburbs?

Blog | July 15, 2025

Don’t select digital service taxes

Blog | July 5, 2025

Show decent respect to the opinions of mankind

Blog | July 4, 2025

Lawmakers should change approach to funding higher education

Blog | July 1, 2025

House Road Plan Puts Mackinac Center Findings to Work

IMPACT Magazine | June 27, 2025

Rule of law requires limits on governors, presidents

Blog | June 20, 2025

The upcoming state budget battle

Blog | June 13, 2025

‘Get off the floor, wipe your eyes, log off that computer and start homeschooling’

The Overton Window Podcast | June 13, 2025

Tax debate should be a budget debate instead

Blog | June 12, 2025

States seek jobs from an industry that delivers few

Blog | June 9, 2025

Voters say no to blank checks for schools

Blog | June 5, 2025

‘Work never gets boring’

The Overton Window Podcast | May 30, 2025

Bad policy, bad results: Michigan’s economic decline

Blog | May 29, 2025

The standard of success for the latest road proposals

Blog | May 27, 2025

American manufacturing defies the doubters

Blog | May 14, 2025

New report shows road quality will decline further

Blog | May 12, 2025

States, not D.C., should make spending decisions

Blog | May 6, 2025

What happens if our friendship with Canada ends?

Blog | May 5, 2025

Lawmakers relieve Michigan of a millstone

Blog | April 28, 2025

Whitmer’s reindustrialization plan, by the numbers

Blog | April 14, 2025

Michigan’s Fiscal Policy During COVID Could Make You Sick

IMPACT Magazine | April 8, 2025

Michigan’s conflicted view of school choice

Blog | April 1, 2025

Let’s Roll

Blog | March 28, 2025

A square deal for the Little Guy!

Blog | March 19, 2025

Business taxes should raise money for government, not transfer cash to big business

Blog | March 17, 2025

House votes to keep public business public

Blog | February 28, 2025

How to sell pork to both parties

Blog | February 25, 2025

How many millions did we spend on paid-leave compliance?

Blog | February 24, 2025

No one wants to read about fiscal federalism

Blog | February 21, 2025

Fix roads without raising taxes

Blog | February 18, 2025

Break Up the Trough Truce with a Sustainable Michigan Budget

IMPACT Magazine | February 17, 2025

Front Page Failures: Corporate Welfare Jobs Rarely Materialize

IMPACT Magazine | February 17, 2025

Targeted public investments won’t make grass grow

Blog | February 6, 2025

Sustainable Michigan Budget would strengthen lawmakers’ hands

Blog | February 5, 2025

Is employment exploitation?

Blog | February 4, 2025

Corporate welfare goes one for eleven in job creation

Blog | January 22, 2025

Michigan legislators authorize new selective business subsidies

Blog | January 20, 2025

Economic trends for Michigan in 2025

Blog | January 13, 2025

Pension funding in worse shape after Michigan’s Democratic party trifecta

Blog | January 6, 2025

Michigan government can afford to spend more on roads

Viewpoints | December 30, 2024

Michigan government can afford to spend more on roads

Blog | November 27, 2024

Have some standards, will you?

Blog | November 21, 2024

A generation of subsidies hasn’t created auto jobs in Michigan

Blog | November 18, 2024

Michigan needs a better playbook for funding universities

Blog | November 14, 2024

Corporate subsidies are out of control

Blog | November 12, 2024

Michigan development program not a pretty site

Blog | October 17, 2024

The return of the spoils system

Blog | September 30, 2024

Michigan is falling behind

Blog | September 26, 2024

Candidates are running on nothing

Blog | September 18, 2024

Support policy, not politics

Blog | September 5, 2024

‘Everybody’s got to read my book and believe it’

The Overton Window Podcast | August 30, 2024

‘We’re putting a face and a name on the issue’

The Overton Window Podcast | August 16, 2024

Unions are bad for cities

Blog | August 15, 2024

The misplaced overspending of Michigan’s 2025 budget

Blog | August 7, 2024

‘Certificate of Need laws are a public policy failure’

The Overton Window Podcast | August 2, 2024

‘I was so distraught; I felt like I had to do something’

The Overton Window Podcast | July 19, 2024

The two big mistakes in Michigan’s 2025 budget

Blog | July 17, 2024

Film credits, SOAR earmarks wrong for Michigan

Blog | June 25, 2024

Ask questions when job promises disappear

Blog | June 25, 2024

Business subsidy bill would set new records

Blog | June 19, 2024

Stop the Hollywood handouts

Blog | June 11, 2024

‘In the past three years, we’ve made more advancements on school choice than in the preceding three decades’

The Overton Window Podcast | June 7, 2024

There is a disconnect between economic development programs and economic growth

Blog | June 4, 2024

‘If we got to Mach 3, 4, 5…then trillions of dollars could get unlocked’

The Overton Window Podcast | May 24, 2024

Lansing bets on a tax hike

Blog | May 21, 2024

‘There’s so much we can learn from polls’

The Overton Window Podcast | May 10, 2024

How much pork will be in the upcoming state budget?

Blog | May 9, 2024

State handouts to Ford could be jeopardized by company’s investments elsewhere

CapCon | May 7, 2024

‘There’s a wide-open Overton Window, and a lot of people have ideas’

The Overton Window Podcast | April 26, 2024

House Republicans propose bills to limit corporate welfare

Blog | April 25, 2024

Michigan’s largest debt declines

CapCon | April 19, 2024

NorthGate: A case study in political development

Blog | April 18, 2024

Are poor urban districts really underfunded?

Blog | April 17, 2024

The realpolitik of state business subsidies

Blog | April 15, 2024

‘If you can make them laugh, they’ll remember things’

The Overton Window Podcast | April 12, 2024

Michigan’s property taxes keep increasing above inflation

CapCon | April 8, 2024

‘The only way you’re going to get involved is by being involved’

The Overton Window Podcast | March 29, 2024

Six charts to change your mind about Michigan

Blog | March 20, 2024

Michigan’s budget isn’t sustainable…Yet

Blog | March 18, 2024

‘Basically it was a free market wish list’

The Overton Window Podcast | March 15, 2024

James M. Hohman

Director of Fiscal Policy

By James M. Hohman