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.