… Pfizer's vaccine work to justify unrelated corporate welfare,” said Michael LaFaive, senior director of … “It is not uncommon for politicians pushing corporate handouts to engage in aggrandizing puffery or … program allows a state board to select major corporate projects to receive special tax incentives. If …
… Policy James Hohman, is featured in a story by The Daily Caller about corporate welfare. You can read more about the Center’s work on corporate welfare here.
… balance the budget is to eliminate the state’s corporate welfare programs and supporting bureaucracy. The … that currently flow directly to the state’s corporate-welfare bureaucracy. The MEDC takes money from many … spending. It should start with eliminating corporate welfare spending.
… tourists to the Great Lake State. The latter is a corporate handout program that gives cash grants and loans … proposal also recommends lifting spending for a corporate welfare line item cut deeply last year by the Michigan … that study here. There is no need to raise corporate welfare spending in the state. Research shows such …
… 2000 and 2010: more corporate welfare. If there was any evidence … scaled back the pace of corporate giveaways, eventually ended … last recession. But corporate welfare is always an attraction … session could see a corporate welfare blowout. To protect … details. Lansing’s corporate welfare backsliding may be gaining …
… Legislature pulled the plug on the state’s Michigan Economic Growth Authority corporate handout program, many Lansing politicians are eager to increase the size … treasury $1 billion, roughly equal to all the money generated by the state’s corporate income tax payers. MEGA is not the state’s only failed attempt at job …
… Disarmament: A State Compact to End Corporate Welfare.” States should compete with … long been a proponent of ending corporate welfare programs. In 2019, the Center … Disarmament: A State Compact to End Corporate Welfare.” The study examined the problems with corporate welfare and proposed a state compact. …
… Legislature passed budgets that found more transportation money without raising tax rates. And both do so, in part, by decreasing support for corporate welfare. The Senate-passed budget includes $93 million in extra road funding. The House-passed budget includes $372 million in extra road funding. Neither …
… 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 …
… managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, was a guest on “Money With Melissa Francis” on Fox Business this afternoon, explaining why corporate welfare for film makers is unfair to the taxpayers from whom the money is taken. You can read more about Michigan’s film subsidies here.