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The Detroit News
Secrecy and Corporate Subsidies Do Not Create Jobs
“Business insiders and politicians shouldn’t be able to decide in secret meetings how public dollars are dispersed. Legislation that will involve so much taxpayer money needs to be debated and designed out in the open.”
Michael LaFaive, senior director of fiscal policy, and Pat Garofalo, director of state and local policy at the American Economic Liberties Project
The Wall Street Journal
School Choice Showdown in Michigan
“The pro-school-choice Mackinac Center last year found 49% of likely Michigan voters — 55% of parents — in favor of tax-credit scholarships.
Only 34% were opposed.”
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board
Democrats Threaten to Send Winter Shivers Through Michigan
“Everyone in Michigan wants to protect the environment, yet Ms. Whitmer and the White House could be harming the state’s lakes and landscape at the same time as they hurt the economy. Closing the pipeline means potentially killing 34,000 jobs and nearly $21 billion in economic activity.”
Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy
Washington Examiner
Right or Wrong, Gretchen Whitmer is Not Acting Based on Data
“Last year, she used extraordinary and unprecedented executive power, declaring that every action she took was necessary to save people from dying of COVID-19. Now, facing the same public health threat, she has switched tactics, leaving it up to individuals and local communities to decide for themselves. Without a rationale for this 180-degree turn, it is impossible to tell which approach is the best. But both cannot be correct.”
Michael Van Beek, director of research
The Daily Wire
The Overton Window: The Most Misunderstood Concept In Politic
“There is no single mechanism for shifting the Overton Window, but it always involves persuading the people to prefer, or at least accept, a new policy. Lawmakers then follow by ratifying what the people have chosen.”
Joseph G. Lehman, president
RealClear Policy
Getting Tricked By the Wrong Kind of Incentives
“These are a few of the incentives that matter to the state’s economic prospects. Paying a handful of companies with taxpayer cash, on the other hand, does not. The academic evidence makes that clear.”
James Hohman, director of fiscal policy
