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Gov. Whitmer Falsely Claims Corporate Handouts Helped Develop the Pfizer Vaccine

Corporate welfare programs are ineffective

… 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 …

Center Research Cited in Daily Caller

Corporate welfare continues to grow

… 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.

Cut Corporate Welfare to Help Balance State Budget

Tenuous relationship between corporate welfare and economic health

… 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.

Governor’s Budget Proposal Revisits Pure Michigan, Other Industry Welfare

There is no need to raise 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 …

Tilt from Tax Cutting to Corporate Welfare Renews Failed Approach to Economic Growth

Lawmakers face a number of corporate welfare proposals

… 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 …

Return of the Mega Subsidy

Corporate welfare still demonstrably ineffective

… 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 …

Mackinac Center Stands Behind Interstate Compact

New legislation to eliminate corporate welfare would be beneficial

… 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. …

Growth Fuels Budget Priorities in House and Senate Budgets

Real Cuts to Corporate Welfare on the Table

… 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 Lawmakers that Voted for the Most Business Subsidies and the Least

$16 billion in corporate welfare approved since 2001

… 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 …

35 Years of Excuses for Bad Policy

Lawmakers should agree to stop offering corporate welfare

… 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 Problem of Corporate Welfare

… (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 …

Proposed Legislation Would Have Workers Pay Their Bosses

Politicians should learn from previous corporate welfare blunders

… 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 …

Proposed Legislation Would Have Workers Pay Their Bosses

Politicians should learn from previous corporate welfare blunders

… 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 …

Voting Against Subsidies Isn't Killing Jobs

Some politicians put too much faith in corporate welfare

… 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, …

Diverting Money from Schools, Roads, and Public Safety to Perpetuate Corporate Welfare

Tax capture bills aim to cycle revenues back to corporate welfare

… 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 …

Lopez on Fox Business

Corporate welfare for movies unfair to taxpayers

… 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.