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James Hohman
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James Hohman
@JamesHohman
Director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac Center. Host of the Overton Window podcast. Tridgerator magnet magnate.
Midland, Michigan Katılım Eylül 2012
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My latest for @CityJournal: Chicago's budget stress, fiscal federalism, and the dangers of a bailouts
city-journal.org/article/chicag…
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@AdrianHemond That’s the thing, right? It’s a long shot idea and nothing’s going to happen without someone pushing for it. So it’s a matter of getting a champion for Black Singapore if it would be a better idea.
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@JamesHohman This idea would make way more sense in a different area of the city. Why not do this in NW Detroit rather than by turning a fine urban park over to outside developers? If you piloted this tax policy around Fenkell and 6 Mile area it would look like Black Singapore in a decade
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Given then the horror that some had about the idea of a special economic zone on Belle Isle, it's an excellent subject for the Overton Window podcast.
We get into what Detroit, Michigan and the nation would get out of it.
mackinac.org/podcasts/the-o…
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No, Michigan does not collect less revenue than it did in 1968. Total revenue increased from $2.4B to $84.7B, a 271% increase with inflation.
Excluding federal revenue, it's $2.0B to $48.9B, a 158% increase with inflation.
michigancapitolconfidential.com/news/mcmorrow-…
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How do I get Japanese Twitter to notice me and become my friend. V interested in their commentary and pugs
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@TomLeonard28 @Simon_Schuster I had to check on current candidates after pointing this out, and it's what I was thinking of when I posted this. x.com/JamesHohman/st…
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Maybe this is changing. There is a variety of details and explanations from candidates now.
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I want to add on point I raised with @Simon_Schuster. Candidates used to have policy papers where they would etch out how proposals would work. I would like to see that again. RETVRN!
bridgemi.com/michigan-gover…
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@AdrianHemond @Simon_Schuster (So you're saying it's not going to get any worse. I'll take it!)
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@JamesHohman @Simon_Schuster I mean right where we are. Its countintuitive, but the only real cure is more special interest money in politics. Partisanship is strong but the parties are weak precisely because no one is in charge except the electeds and the small donors
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Some policymakers asked what happened to Michigan's $9B surplus.
It got spent.
Schools then Medicaid then roads. Add on expensive corporate welfare and pork projects and it's gone.
No, I don't think people got a good return.
mackinac.org/blog/2026/wher…
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@AdrianHemond @Simon_Schuster Where will those tendencies bring us?
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@JamesHohman @Simon_Schuster Candidates don't do this because they have figured out that negative partisanship requires constant position changes to remain on the "right side". Policy papers don't open the wallets of small dollar contributors who are incapable of holding you accountable individually
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“High levels of waste, fraud and abuse are also endemic in food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare programs,” @JamesHohman explains. trib.al/9PeddEk
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Maybe this is changing. There is a variety of details and explanations from candidates now.
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If you think improper payments, fungibility, and eligibility into the upper classes are a problem for scholarship accounts, then I have some news for you about safety net programs. washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/…
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Raleigh NIMBYs are now writing sad poems lamenting all the housing development, and I AM SO HERE FOR IT. 🤣
livableraleigh.com/state-of-the-c…
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Overall, aluminum tariffs have raised prices, hurt US manufacturers & consumers, alienated a top producer & close ally, and weakened the DIB. Old smelters keep closing, and any new ones will take years to come online and divert resources from better uses if/when they do. /7
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State symbol bills are pretty inoffensive. But also, putting them into state law doesn't mean people have adopted them or even know about them. Without looking, anyone know Michigan's official state soil?
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Taxpayers spent a couple of hundred million dollars on just a handful of people's speculation that this would be valuable. bridgemi.com/business-watch…
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