Had Joe Biden’s stimulus-boosting, damage-control visit to mid-Michigan this week been made open to the public rather than just a few hand-picked visitors, maybe someone could have asked him why a four-year-old “taxpayer” received a “first-time homebuyer” tax credit of $8,000.
That’s right. A four-year-old. According to a report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax [...]
Michigan home day care owner Sherry Loar had a rude awakening with her state check. “The next time I received my co-pay check … they took out union dues!” (See video of Sherry and other day care owners here)
But she and other workers say they have received none of the benefits promised when union and [...]
The following is text from a new video released by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, highlighting filmmaker Michael Moore’s initial criticisms of a film subsidy program in Michigan, for which he later applied:
In his 2009 film “Capitalism: A Love Story,” Michigan native Michael Moore went to Wall Street with a request to corporate officials whose companies received [...]
$6,876,303.90, to be exact. That’s what the Michigan Department of State Police is charging for documents that I requested via the Freedom of Information Act regarding the state’s handling of federal homeland security grant money from 2002 to present (see image below). This is definitely a record for Mackinac Center FOIA requests. In fact, this [...]
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) has just published its November issue of The Freeman. As our readers know, FEE is one of our favorite liberty defending educational organizations.
In this issue of The Freeman topics range from government health care, government motors, the cash for clunkers fiasco, hedge funds, the stealth expansion [...]
Michelle Malkin said it best when she said, “The Culture of Corruption has never hit so close to home.”
The prominent author, blogger and commentator was referring in a recent blog post to a shady scheme to shanghai Michigan’s home day care providers into a newly-formed, dues-paying labor union. Last month, the Mackinac Center Legal Foundation [...]
Hundreds and maybe even thousands of young people in Detroit apparently had to stand in lines and in the rain for up to four hours to receive paychecks for their summer jobs. Others did not know where to find their checks. Still others didn’t get their paychecks at all. And on several occasions, police were [...]
ABC News is reporting today that a couple of labor unions are a little miffed that Michael Moore used non-union labor during work on his newest release, “Capitalism: A Love Story”, which opens in theaters nationwide tomorrow.
