Compared to typical government programs, cash subsidies are more likely to put taxpayers’ money to good use. Policymakers should consider converting existing government programs to make them function more like Rx Kids.
Michael Van Beek
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Opinion | Michigan’s utopian dreams: State officials aim for the impossible
Setting unrealistic goals avoids a basic level of accountability we should demand of policymakers and distracts the government from dealing with issues that it can actually do something about.
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Opinion | 5 problems with Whitmer group’s Michigan population plan
A report by a Whitmer-appointed group on how to increase the state’s population is too vague to be much use for policymakers, lacks specific goals and doesn’t say how much any changes would cost.
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Opinion | Another governor, another college plan with no accountability
Gretchen Whitmer’s Sixty by 30 plan emulates failed efforts by predecessors to raise the number of post-high-school degrees. But the plan only helps a few thousand. Holding colleges accountable to graduate more students would go farther.