Michigan should make it easy for people who have obtained occupational licenses in other states to work legally here.
The state would be better off sticking to funding roads rather than subsidizing film festivals, orchestras and garden poetry readings.
Gov. Whitmer wants government to give students a free community college education. The idea will cost at least $292.5 million per year and accomplish little.
Increasing the gas tax by 45 cents per gallon could raise $2.5 billion, but it would also cost 22,500 jobs in the private sector. Spending that money on roads and cutting other areas of state government spending by the same amount could create 24,000 jobs.
Criminal justice, government transparency and occupational licensing are just three areas ripe for reform.
Too few young schoolchildren know how to read and write at grade level. Spending more money on preschool won’t fix that problem.
State funding of Michigan schools has already increased significantly after years of economic stagnation
The Janus decision is having an effect on membership