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Posted on 06/29/2026 7:41:50 AM PDT by Twotone
During her terms in office, Democratic Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer offered billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies to select companies. Overall, she authorized $6.9 billion in subsidies during her tenure. Of that, $2.7 billion was offered to just eight major projects. Of the $1.8 billion of that figure that has been spent so far, there have only been 602 jobs created, breaking down to about $3 million spent per job, according to a new report from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.
According to the report, the Whitmer administration said that the major subsidy projects would "create 20,595 jobs in Michigan. So far, these deals have created 602 jobs, just 3% of expectations. Of the $2.7 billion offered, $1.8 billion has been spent — transferred either to companies or to local economic development agencies."
The eight deals that took up the $1.8 billion in taxpayer funding include projects for Fiat Chrysler, General Motors/LG Energy Solutions, a Ford expansion, Gotion, Our Next Energy, Billerud, a Ford plant in Marshall, and a project at the Mundy Township site.
The only deals that created jobs out of the eight major plays from the Whitmer administration were with the subsidies that went to General Motors and LG (408 jobs), Our Next Energy (48 jobs), and the Ford-Marshall deal (146 jobs).
With a total of 602 jobs, the $1.8 billion breaks down to about $3 million spent to create each job.
“An assessment of major subsidy deals announced on the front page of the state’s largest newspaper between 2000 and 2020 found that companies produced just 9% of the jobs promised when deals were made. In other words, when public officials announce that an agreement with a company will create 1,000 jobs, only 90 jobs materialized, on average,” the report read.
However, Whitmer’s track record is worse than that 20-year average, with just 3 percent of the 20,595 jobs that were promised from the deal.
“The failure of these major deals may have lawmakers looking more skeptically at economic development deals like these. Indeed, the Legislature did not authorize any new business subsidies in 2025, the first time since at least 2000. Voters, too, should be more skeptical. The Whitmer administration’s track record shows that marquee economic development deals rarely work out as announced and that selective business subsidies fail to drive economic growth,” the report added.
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Do we need to bother looking at the demographics of the jobs created?
Probably not.
That’s a pretty crappy ratio of job per dollar spent.
Obviously (to a Democrat), more money should have been spent.
Every social spending project is primarily a graft project.
They are not much good at/for anything, but they sure know how to steal/launder money.
Their biggest election steal targets since Trump have been the stepford wives they've used, particularly in positions of state attorney general, secretary of state, and state judiciaries...to keep cover on all their money scams.
Am I too late?
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Hey, for government, that is extremely efficient. It is even more so since helping people was never the reason for taking that $1.8 billion from taxpayers. After all, you need a lot of cash to buy votes.
Probably twice that many worked on her house during that time, don’t forget to count them/s
“They could have just given 602 unemployed people $3 million each, changed their lives so they never had to work again and done far more good.”
Yes, but those 602 people would not be politicians, relatives of polticians, lobbyists, or big company donors! We must learn to stop complaining. It’s only tax money and no one cares.
Elon Musk said it best:
It’s insane to take money from super-efficient entrepreneurs and give it to super-inefficient government to create jobs.
Michigan must be a really good at fraud to beat the taxpayer out of OPM so easily.
Even that does not work. Here in CaCaLand the street bums are given homes and food, but trash it ‘cause they are trash.
Blue cities burn and spend (not invest, not give out) ~$80K per street bum/year. The only decrease in their numbers is ‘cause of death. They never get a dime.
At this rate, they could take all of Elon’s money and create will over one thousand jobs.
I’d interpret this differently. For democrats, this was a huge success - because we both know where the money is really going. It didn’t go to people getting jobs - but had to go SOMEWHERE. Guess where?
The evidence for small government isn’t just that big, bloated, governments move too slowly due to bureaucracy, getting you pennies on the dollar because of too many layers of government employees...it’s that the opportunity for outright FRAUD is too big ON TOP OF IT ALL.
All these “government programs” either fail because of “too big government” and/or the fraud going on within the programs themselves - with much of the fraud being done by those within the system, funneling money to political campaigns.
It’s clear as day at this point.
Those NGOs have to get their cut.
They should have just had a citizen lottery, given 602 people millions, that would have been better. Maybe not wasting money would have been best of all.
Conservatives are missing the boat when we point out that this initiative cost $3 million per job. Of course it did. That is the point. The money made its way through a system of bureaucracies and NGOs before it got to the people looking for jobs. Dozens if not hundreds of well-paid government bureaucrats, NGO executives and Democrat activists each took their cut. Then maybe $10,000 of the $3 million was used to create a job. But a bunch of Dem allies got rich. That is the point of this program - not creating jobs. Repeat - the point of this program is funneling money to Dem activists and allies, not creating jobs.
602 jobs of the 20,595 promised.
I need a Maxwell Smart “Missed it by that much.” graphic, please.
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