Mike LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative, told National Public Radio that Michigan’s film subsidy program is only a way for politicians to buy “good PR,” but the program is “symbolism over substance.”
Mackinac Center analysts have produced a large body of work examining the film subsidy program and its numerous flaws, which can be found here.
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