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… for the state’s unsustainable budget increases? Record amounts of pork. Lawmakers approved $4.3 billion in unfair, ineffective, and expensive corporate welfare spending last year. Surely, more restraint on the part of policymakers would have resulted in better spending habits. Gov. Whitmer’s executive … more

… public. Or police union contracts that keep police from basic accountability. Or budgets that grow faster than taxpayers’ ability to pay. Or the pork, corporate handouts and union favors already mentioned. People deserve better than a government that takes money from unfavored groups to hand out to favored … more

… dollars from Michigan taxpayers. 7. EV battery maker gets $189M in corporate welfare, lays off 170 employees, Nov. 18. Two years before mass layoffs, EV … Michigan lawmakers awarded it $1.7 billion in cash and other forms of corporate welfare. 5. Jennifer Granholm’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad EV … more

… officials should not be in the corporate handout business. They have … to predict which of their corporate supplicants will flourish … fashion. Politicians and corporate leaders held a press event … that one show that such corporate subsidy programs fail to … This suggests that these corporate subsidy programs are just … more

… smear campaign against skeptical local residents set Michigan’s subsidies for Ford’s Marshall battery plant apart from all the other terrible corporate welfare deals across the country,” said Mozena in a statement accompanying the award announcement. “It’s one thing for politicians to use fuzzy math … more