Editorial

Michigan Revenue Sharing Has Increased Under Gov. Snyder

The Truth Squad, the Center for Michigan’s “fact checkers,” made a mistake when fact-checking a claim by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer about revenue sharing under Gov. Rick Snyder. The purveyors of truth write:

ForTheRecord says: Revenue sharing payments are up during the Snyder administration. In FY 2011 payments were $1.091 billion. Payments in the FY 2015 budget are $1.226 billion.

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