According to Grand Rapids ABC affiliate WZZM 13, Michigan taxpayers spend $1.3 million every year on administrative costs and board member transportation to the meetings of 184 state oversight boards.

Michael LaFaive, director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative at the Mackinac Center, was quoted in the article, suggesting other uses for the money spent on these boards.

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