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150% A bill package introduced this week could provide a path towards eliminating taxpayer handouts to out of state companies. Senate Bills 523 and 524, sponsored by Senators Aric Nesbitt and Jim Ananich, and House Bill 4971 and 4972, sponsored by Representatives Steven Johnson and Yousef Rabhi, would create an interstate compact between Michigan and other Midwest states. In an attempt to draw companies into their states, most states offer economic incentives in the form of taxpayer funded subsidies. Lawmakers often justify new subsidy programs and spending by pointing out that other states o...

Believes the national vote winner should be the president because that's fair play because that's the way -- >> you mean in montana which has one member of congress, three electoral votes rb even they would like to go to the national vote? >> they all believe the vote getter should be the president. the candidates pay no attention to them. >> takes 3/4s of the states to change the constitution. 13 states are currently signed on to what is called the national popular vote state compact where they plenl to give their electoral vote to the win wither of the popular vote. right now the participati...

That goes back to the analogy in maryland. if you tried that same type of situation where republicans do have some strength in a state like maryland, obviously not pennsylvania politically, you wind up diminishing the opportunities for republicans to win because the democrats are going to ship those resources into those areas that are much more vulnerable, could be potentially vulnerable. pete sessions is right. the legislature has to be very careful here how they try to take the political ax and carve up the state for presidential politics. because it's the local stuff that really matters the...