MICHIGAN TRUTH SQUAD ANALYSIS: Michiganballot.com and “The Taxpayer’s Guide to the 2012 Michigan Ballot Proposals” Who: Americans for Prosperity What: Website, mailers Truth Squad call: Flagrant foul Michiganballot.com, and mailers that are trying to drive voters to it, present themselves as generic voter aids. They are, though, the creation of Americans for Prosperity, a group […]
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Analysis: A slap in the face by the invisible hand
By Rich Robinson On one level, the vote by the Senate Economic Development Committee to defer to another day the proposed new public-private bridge betweenDetroit andWindsor looks like the triumph of ideology over commerce. Fearless libertarians who have had enough of taxation faced down every business association in Michigan. The titans of business and industry blinked. […]