Google is going to put 1,000 tech jobs in Michigan come fall.
Cool! Michigan’s economy is in the dumper and this will certainly help out. This is also a big boost to Governor Granholm’s reelection campaign as Michigan jobs is being pushed as the #1 issue by challenger Dick DeVos.
DeVos’ platform, put simply, is that we need to lower the tax burden on businesses here in Michigan to attract new companies. Pretty much a staple Republican cry. So, how did Granholm and Michigan get these Google jobs?
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation helped deliver $38 million in tax breaks to bring the company to the state, and said Michigan will get three times that much back in tax revenues.
Shocking.
Apparently if you lower the tax burden companies are more likely to settle in your state.
I wonder what would happen to Michigan if we lowered the tax burden across the board instead of just for special people that were offering large numbers of jobs all at once? Maybe we’d get a bunch of new companies starting up in Michigan. Maybe we wouldn’t have to make special deals for large companies while punishing small startups for having the audacity to try and do business in this state. Maybe some of our existing businesses would use the extra capital to hire additional employees to increase production?
Granholm deserves a thumbs up for Google coming to Michigan, no doubt about it. Perhaps she should apply this crazy “lower taxes means more jobs which means more state revenue” a bit more often — like to everybody — before the election?
Adopt that stance and I will vote for you. It is the only reason that I like DeVos.
Just curious if you have read Granholm’s “plan”…All I can find in her “plan” is what she HAS done – past tense. Oh that and all her successes despite our president’s policies. If you have read a “plan” that includes what she wants to do upon re-election, please share. I really would like to know what she has “planned” for a next term (if she’s re-elected). Is it more of the same that has Michigan near the bottom (oh, wait, that’s because of Bush’s policies)…
And DeVos’ plan consists of… things he hasn’t done, and things he says he wants to do but doesn’t actually give any specifics for.
If Granholm can steal low tax fiscal conservatism from DeVos, his campaign doesn’t have a shot. What’s the rationale for his candidacy?
I wasn’t necessarily endorsing DeVos either (how well do you know a candidate when he runs on one platform?). I’d just like to know what Granholm plans. Her plan mentions nothing of the future.
Fair enough. I do support Granholm, obviously. Her Google “get” this week has helped persuade me that her work hasn’t been in vain. The future is hard to predict, especially in a star-crossed state like Michigan. But the Google announcement does prove that she’s actually been working on it, and with some success.
For the record, Granholm has a clearer idea about how to cut the Single Business Tax in a revenue neutral way. DeVos wants to cut it, but can’t figure out how to meet budget requirements (at least he hasn’t said how he would do so). The SBT is a bigger problem than the overall level of taxation. And of course the REAL problem is the 40-year-downsliding economy. Which I do trust Granholm to understand more than DeVos.
DeVos is a Globalist Puppet. Granholm isn’t the sunny side of the coin either,
and I’m not sure if she isn’t too far away from that wonderful label either.
What I do see, is that Granholm HAS done things. Poor ol’ Dick just has a record
of cutting jobs, moving them to China, profitting off them, etc, etc, etc. Not
that there is anything wrong with that, just don’t lie to me and pretend you
didn’t do it .. or that you somehow care about people who aren’t employeed.
Me? I’m voting so I can sleep at night for the next four years. I’m voting Libertarian.
-Abject.