James M. Hohman, Director of Fiscal Policy

The Margarine Debate Spreads Lessons to the Paid Sick Leave Mandate

IMPACT Magazine | November 21, 2018

A Look at What Happens After Minimum Wage Hikes in Michigan

Blog | November 19, 2018

Amazon and Foxconn Ignite Opposition To Business Subsidies

Blog | November 16, 2018

Just A Reminder Of The Growing State Budget

Blog | November 3, 2018

Cities and Suburbs Should Grow Together

Blog | October 19, 2018

Seventy Percent of Michigan School Districts Contract Out for Services

Pressroom | October 19, 2018

The State Budget is Larger Than $10 Billion

Blog | October 8, 2018

Make Your Issue More Popular Instead of Complaining About Term Limits

IMPACT Magazine | October 2, 2018

Company Turns Down Taxpayer Subsidies

Blog | September 27, 2018

Michigan Wages and Benefits Recovers

Blog | September 21, 2018

How to Control the Pension Debt

Blog | September 14, 2018

What Would it Mean to Unleash the MEDC?

Viewpoints | September 10, 2018

How Taxpayers Get Fleeced in Michigan

Blog | August 28, 2018

Spending Interests Want Spending

Blog | August 23, 2018

Can a Scorecard Change an Issue?

IMPACT Magazine | August 22, 2018

What Would it Mean to Unleash the MEDC?

Blog | August 21, 2018

State Lawmakers Should Cut Business Subsidies Even More Next Year

Viewpoints | August 6, 2018

Michigan Catching Up On State Employee Pension Debt

Blog | August 1, 2018

Gov. Rick Snyder’s Fiscal Policy Legacy

CapCon | July 28, 2018

Politicians Subsidize Less Than 1 Percent of Job Creation

Blog | July 27, 2018

A Lesson in Endpoint Bias

Blog | July 25, 2018

How Business Subsidies Cut to the Front of the Line for Michigan Tax Dollars

Blog | July 3, 2018

Legislature Approves New Business Subsidies

Blog | June 28, 2018

When We Pay Administrators to Lie to Us

IMPACT Magazine | June 15, 2018

Business Subsidy Programs Grow State’s Bureaucracy, Not Its Economy

Blog | June 14, 2018

Michigan Lawmakers Consider More Handouts

Blog | June 12, 2018

Getting More College Grads Won’t Improve State Prosperity

Blog | May 31, 2018

New Scorecard Ranks Every Michigan Legislator on Corporate Handouts

Pressroom | May 15, 2018

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

Blog | May 15, 2018

Token Symbols of Growth Damage the State Economy

Blog | May 11, 2018

What I Would Like To See From Campaigns This Year

Viewpoints | May 7, 2018

No More Additional Favors for Solar

Blog | May 3, 2018

The Battle Between Taxes and Fees in Storm Sewer Finance

Blog | May 1, 2018

State Funding for Universities Continues Upward Climb

Blog | April 5, 2018

The Great Lakes Trough Truce

Blog | April 3, 2018

Study on Arkansas Tourism Campaign Should Make You Scratch Your Head about Pure Michigan

Blog | March 29, 2018

Buying Amazon

IMPACT Magazine | March 22, 2018

When the Goal of Spending Money is to Spend Money

Blog | March 20, 2018

A Look At The State Budget for Business Subsidies

Blog | March 16, 2018

What Michigan Government Lacks in Transparency

Blog | March 15, 2018

Property Tax Revenue On a Slow Rise

Blog | March 6, 2018

The Flexible State Budget

Viewpoints | March 5, 2018

What You Should Know About The Local Government Pension and Retiree Health Insurance Package

IMPACT Magazine | February 14, 2018

Michigan May Surpass 2000 Employment Levels Soon

Blog | February 13, 2018

Politicians Cannot Keep Up With Dynamic Economy

Blog | January 30, 2018

Come or Go, Amazon’s HQ Decision Means Little to Michigan Economy

Blog | January 26, 2018

Governor Granholm Called to Underfund Pensions 6 Years Before Company Bankruptcy

Blog | January 10, 2018

2017 Was Good For Michigan

Blog | January 8, 2018

The Problems with the Pension and Retiree Health Insurance Bills

Blog | December 12, 2017

Unions Complicit in Retirement Benefit Crisis

Blog | December 1, 2017

Taxpayers Shouldn’t Subsidize High Income Housing

Blog | November 27, 2017

Online Map Shows Local Government Retiree Health Care Funding Levels

Pressroom | November 14, 2017

The Business Climate Matters More Than Amazon

Blog | November 9, 2017

Tipping the Scales on Solar

Blog | October 30, 2017

How to Solve Government Employee Retiree Health Insurance Costs

Blog | October 25, 2017

Michigan Local Governments Have Self-Inflicted Financial Problems

Blog | October 16, 2017

Why Pension Reform Is Hard for Politicians

Blog | October 6, 2017

Taxpayers Deserve to Know Details of Business Subsidy Deals

Blog | October 5, 2017

Support Service Contracting at Record Levels

IMPACT Magazine | October 4, 2017

Sheriffs Float the Idea of a Kayak Tax

Blog | October 2, 2017

Michigan Income Tax Cuts Remain Affordable

Blog | September 18, 2017

Giving More Taxpayer Dollars to Universities Won’t Make Michigan More Educated

Blog | September 6, 2017

More Schools Than Ever Use Private-Sector Firms to Provide Support Services

Viewpoints | September 5, 2017

New Subsidies Show Which Groups Are Important to Lansing Politicians

Blog | August 31, 2017

New School Privatization Survey Results

Blog | August 24, 2017

Number of School Districts Privatizing Services Continues to Grow

Pressroom | August 24, 2017

Lansing Politicians Put Favored Businesses Ahead of Everyone Else

Blog | August 16, 2017

Keep Michigan Taxes Limited

Viewpoints | August 7, 2017

Michigan Sets the National Standard on Pensions

IMPACT Magazine | August 2, 2017

Targeted Business Subsidies vs. Broad Tax Relief

Blog | July 31, 2017

Taking the Pension Task Force to Task

Blog | July 28, 2017

Why Michigan Pension Reform Matters

Blog | July 20, 2017

‘Trough Truce’ on Display in Latest Debate on Corporate Welfare

Blog | July 18, 2017

Mackinac Center: Michigan a National Innovator in Pension Reform

Pressroom | July 13, 2017

A Map of Michigan Commute Times

Blog | July 5, 2017

Michigan's Robust Municipal Finance Model

Blog | June 27, 2017

Mackinac Center Praises Groundbreaking Pension Reforms in Michigan

Pressroom | June 15, 2017

Business Subsidies Won't Drive Growth

Blog | June 9, 2017

Pension Protestors Should Be 401(k) Supporters

Blog | June 5, 2017

If Michigan Officials Believed School Pensions ‘Vital’ They Would Have Paid for Them

Viewpoints | June 5, 2017

State Retirement Managers Develop Convenient, Hypocritical Excuse

Blog | May 24, 2017

Pension Reform Legislation Benefits Students, Teachers and Taxpayers

Pressroom | May 23, 2017

If School Pensions are ‘Vital,’ They Should Have Been Properly Funded

Blog | May 16, 2017

Unions for Underfunding

Blog | May 15, 2017

A Better Way to Fund Universities

Blog | May 3, 2017

Legislature Considers Reopening a Closed Business Subsidy Program

Blog | May 1, 2017

Michigan’s Public Pensions Are at Risk

Blog | May 1, 2017

Grand Rapids is a Regional Leader in Attracting People

Blog | April 27, 2017

Proposed Corporate Giveaway Unlikely to Grow Economy

Blog | April 20, 2017

Net Domestic Migration by County

Blog | April 18, 2017

Pension Funding Best Practices Remembered

Blog | April 12, 2017

The Failing Business of Business Favors

Blog | April 10, 2017

Tax Feeders Declare a Truce at the Trough

Viewpoints | April 3, 2017

Hybrid Plan Did Not Fix School Retirement System

Blog | March 30, 2017

In the Battle for Jobs, Subsidy Programs Shoot Blanks

Blog | March 17, 2017

Michigan Already Awash in Business Subsidies

Blog | March 16, 2017

Michigan Should Reject Special Corporate Developer Bills

Blog | March 15, 2017

Tax Hike Cost Michigan Households $1000

Blog | March 7, 2017

James M. Hohman

Director of Fiscal Policy

By James M. Hohman