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The NBA trade deadline is coming up Thursday afternoon, and Ainge is pursuing multiple deals, big and small. This is one of his favorite times of the year. His rivals throughout the league can sense it. "He's probably the best GM in the game,'' says Daryl Morey, who became GM of the Houston Rockets after working with Ainge at the Celtics. "Look at the roster in '03 when Danny took over, and his ability to win a title five years later -- that transformation is unheard of, I've never seen anything like it. Now you look at the way he's set up the Celtics today, and it's the best I've seen someone go from losing a core to creating lots of future picks and flexibility to turn it around quickly. People don't see it yet because it hasn't turned the corner, but they will see it.'' NBA.com
Analytics. "He was the first GM in basketball to use it for sure,'' says Morey, who worked for both the front office and the business side of the Celtics after helping Grousbeck's ownership group define the financial value of the team. Morey was soon joined by Mike Zarren, a lawyer and Freakonomics-styled data analyst who has risen to become Ainge's assistant GM. "As a former player, you just don't see this -- he is so forward thinking,'' Morey says of Ainge. "Immediately saw the value in the analysis we were doing, and he was able to integrate it into his decision making. He obviously had his own opinions on players. Myself and Mike were working on a draft model, and when the analysis confirmed what Danny believed, it allowed him to be more confident in what he believed in; and when it didn't, he used it to ask more questions -- am I missing something? He went on to quickly understand how to use it.'' NBA.com
Harden was notoriously known, especially during his first two seasons in Houston, as being aloof, not speaking much after games and providing little insight on the real James Harden. "I was being lazy, being tired, wanting to go home and relax," he said. He also became a running joke around the league for his lack of playing defense. "I put defense on the backburner," Harden admits now. Sports Illustrated
Do you have any interest in talking to Daryl Morey? Charles Barkley: Not at all. I have nothing against Daryl Morey. But what annoys me about Daryl Morey is they [the Rockets] go out and get James Harden. Then, they go get Dwight Howard. They go get Trevor Ariza. They go after Carmelo Anthony. They go after Chris Bosh. How is that analytics, just getting better players? Just explain it to me. Seriously. I am willing to deal with common sense. I mean, come on. They are just bringing in better players. How is that analytical? Sports Illustrated
"That's my right hand man," Harden said of Durant. "I've learned so much from him, he's going through a tough time right now, battling all these injuries, but he's a strong-minded person; he's going to battle through it, fight through it. I just try to send him text messages here and there to give him motivation and courage, so when he gets back on the court he'll be 100 percent. Obviously [then] he gets back on the court and scores 40 points and only misses five shots – that's really unheard of." Basketball Insiders
Pat Beverley was introduced as a defensive specialist. Even when he won the Skills Challenge on Saturday, he was described by TNT's Ernie Johnson as "an irritant." But he was a winner based on skills. In some ways, that should not have been a surprise. The Skills challenge has two kinds of shots, layups and 3-pointers, the shots the Rockets take more often than any team, and no mid-range jumper. So when Beverley misfired his passes in the semifinals and finals, falling far behind Jeff Teague and then Brandon Knight, he made his first 3-pointer in each round while they were still missing. With that, he hoped to take his success in Brooklyn back to Houston. "Most of all, I came out here to have fun," Beverley said. "I hope Coach (Kevin) McHale is watching and maybe I can get more plays now. Houston Chronicle
KC Johnson: Marshall High School product Patrick Beverley, a close friend of Derrick Rose, wins the Skills Challenge. Twitter @KCJHoop
Jonathan Feigen: Harden and company were stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes. Here in time and on practice court with Rockets asst. coach Matt Brase now. Twitter @Jonathan_Feigen
Troy Daniels: Why Charles go at big bro @James Harden like that smh.. Knowing he bout to win MVP #NBAStyle Twitter @troydaniels
"You guys vote on the MVP and I think MVP is a lot about narratives and what may happen during that time," Durant said when asked about the difference between a great season and a player having an MVP-type season. "There's a lot of guys that play extremely well for years and years and just starting to get MVP consideration. But I think that consistent play sometimes gets a little boring to people but if you look at a guy like James Harden, he's been doing it for three years, same things and people start to act like it's new. Steph Curry has been doing the same thing for three years and I guess the narrative (is) around their team but what he's been doing is new to everybody," Durant continued. "Once you guys really watch games and realize what these guys have been doing consistently for years, it's nothing new. It's all the same. I guess the hype around it is a little different so... of course everybody gets better but if you stay consistent in what you do it's not like they came out of nowhere." ESPN.com
The Houston Rockets are plotting a renewed attempt to try to convince the Phoenix Suns to part with star guard Goran Dragic via trade before Thursday's NBA trade deadline, according to league sources. ESPN.com
Sources said that the Rockets, who let Dragic go in free agency in the summer of 2012 but have him high on their list of free-agent targets this coming summer, are prominent among the teams hoping to engage the Suns in serious discussions about Dragic before the league's annual trade buzzer next week. ESPN.com
The Los Angeles Lakers, who have also coveted Dragic for some time, are likewise presumed to be intent on testing the Suns' resolve when it comes to their Slovenian point guard, since sources say L.A. plans to chase Dragic with an expected max four-year contract offer this summer valued at an estimated $80 million. ESPN.com
"I have nothing against Daryl Morey," Barkley told SI.com Thursday night. "But what annoys me about Daryl Morey is they [the Rockets] go out and get James Harden. Then, they go get Dwight Howard. They go get Trevor Ariza. They go after Carmelo Anthony. They go after Chris Bosh. How is that analytics, just getting better players? Just explain it to me. Seriously. I am willing to deal with common sense. I mean, come on. They are just bringing in better players. How is that analytical?" Sports Illustrated
"I think more people agree with me who know basketball than disagree," Barkley said. "I've had at least four or five NBA coaches call me loving what I said. I saw Mark Cuban said something. I also saw a couple of coaches say analytics are a small part of it but a big thing is what Charles said is correct." Sports Illustrated
While Morey was especially incensed by Barkley's criticism of his methods and the 36-17 Rockets' team defense, Houston's star guard told For The Win he doesn't pay attention to such critiques. "I didn't know anything about that," Harden, who is the newest athlete endorser of elastic sports tape KT Tape, said Wednesday. "Things like that, I'm not worried about it. That can get me sidetracked on what I need to do in my job. If I worry about those things, I wouldn't be doing my job. I worry about what I can control and focus on my team and trying to win basketball games." For The Win
Alex Kennedy: Philadelphia's Robert Covington, Cleveland's Matthew Dellavedova and Houston's Kostas Papanikolaou were added to the Rising Stars Challenge. Robert Covington replaces Michael Carter-Williams, Matthew Dellavedova replaces Kelly Olynyk and Kostas Papanikolaou replaces Jusuf Nurkic. Twitter @AlexKennedyNBA
Shams Charania: Nuggets' Jusuf Nurkic has pulled out of NBA Rising Stars game, with Rockets' Kostas Papanikolaou replacing him, league sources tell RealGM. Twitter @ShamsCharania
Average height of the main three players is 6-foot-10. It's truly a big man franchise.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as one of an elite group of soliders on a mission to save a scientist from an underground lab where they encounter an evil presence
Deranged adultery in a 1950s psychiatric hospital is the subject of British director David Mackenzie's drama. Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson star
Scottish director David Mackenzie seems to like the 1950s, perhaps because of the sexual repression that marked that period in Britain, and the dramatic mileage to be derived from characters busting out of the box. As with his 2003 film Young Adam, Asylum is set in the 1950s, is based on a novel (by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the source novel for Cronenberg's Spider) and features sex and adultery. But while Young Adam was a deserved critical success, Asylum really does suffer from a rush of blood to the head (or should that be the groin) and too rarely rises above its preposterous conceit.
Taking up his post as deputy superintendent of an isolated high security mental hospital, Max Raphael (Bonneville) arrives with his wife Stella (Richardson) and their young son Charlie (Lewis). Stella is clearly spirited, independently minded and bored out of her skull, not least with her husband. It's not long before she has fallen rather heavily for Edgar Stark (Csokas), an inmate with both artistic and murderous credentials. He's a brooding Mellors to Stella's Lady Chatterley.
With no one wondering why Stella is wearing make-up to the greenhouse, their illicit cavorting becomes more and more adventurous. Before they get caught, Edgar escapes: at which point what could have been dismissed as a silly fling becomes, for Stella, something far more dangerous.
There is a lot to admire in Asylum: the period is well-evoked, from the chilly halls of the asylum to the seedy bohemianism of the lovers' eventual love nest; Richardson ably conveys the scary tunnel-vision of someone in the grip of amour fou; while McKellen, as Max's slimily obsequiousness colleague Dr Cleave, a man clearly up to no good himself, enjoyably steals every scene in which he appears.
The problem is the implausibility of Stella's passion - there's just a little too much fou in this amour. Scriptwriter Patrick Marber fails to keep us on board Stella's journey. She seems far too intelligent to throw her life away on a man who mutilated his wife and is obviously two loaves shorts of a basket. By the time the film reaches its tragic finale, we've already jumped ship.
David Mackenzie's follow-up to Young Adam is at turns intriguing and ludicrous, finally failing to add up to the sum of its parts.
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How Occupational Licensing Redistributes Income
No benefits to consumers to be found.
The Mercatus Center at George Mason University has a new working paper looking at the effects of occupational licensure in the area of opticians. The results show the problems of state licensing in a variety of areas.
From 1950 to today, it is estimated that the percent of occupations now requiring a license has risen from five percent to 30 percent. In other words, the percent of occupations which require people to pay a fee to the state or take mandated classes has risen six-fold. According to Dr. Morris Kleiner of the University of Minnesota, most of this licensing drives up costs for consumers but does not lead to better health and safety results.
The Mercatus paper, authored by Dr. Edward Timmons and Anna Mills, compares the 21 states which require a license for an optician and those which do not. Opticians are eye care specialists who fit glasses and lenses to correct vision. They do not require a license in Michigan.
The paper finds that licensing causes a redistribution of wealth from consumers to opticians with no observable benefit in health or quality of services. Specifically, the authors write:
"The results suggest that opticians earn 0.3-0.5 percent more for each year that a licensing statute is in effect. In addition, tougher licensing provisions (in the form of more exams or longer education requirements) increase optician earnings by 2-3 percent. In an examination of vision insurance and malpractice insurance premiums, we find little evidence that optician licensing has enhanced the quality of services delivered to consumers. By and large, optician licensing appears to be reducing consumer welfare by raising the earnings of opticians without enhancing the quality of services delivered to consumers."
This is a fairly common finding, backed up by research from scholars at many different organizations. Licensing should only be required if the public's health and safety is at risk — otherwise, it simply redistributes wealth from consumers to select special interests.
The Facts on Electricity Choice
Consumers pay a high price for utility monopolies.
Electricity choice in Michigan is under attack again this year. The two big utility companies are investing heavily in an advertising campaign and contract research. Ultimately, they'd like to eliminate market competition and force all consumers to buy only their electricity. The facts are, however, that electricity choice in Michigan has a track record of driving down rates, and electricity consumers will be worse off if the state enlarged the utilities' monopoly.
Michigan first authorized a choice program with Public Act 141 of 2000. At the time, Michigan's electricity rates were higher than the national average and higher than any nearby state.
Michigan rates quickly became less competitive after the cap was imposed. By 2009, Michigan had soared back above the national average. Michigan electricity customers now pay more than customers in any of the surrounding states, and 6 percent more than the national average. Today Michigan residents, employers, and the state economy as a whole are paying a high price for protecting the monopoly status of its large utilities.
There are too many school districts, according to state officials. Even though student enrollment is declining, more school districts open every year, these officials say, putting existing districts under financial pressure.
Though this may seem like a school finance and administrative issue, the "too many school districts" narrative is often used to criticize charter schools. Juxtaposing Michigan's decreasing enrollment with the rising number of school districts (entirely driven by charter schools) is just a way to complain about the fact that more charter schools are opening.
Charter schools in Michigan are legally defined as "districts," even though most are single buildings enrolling far fewer students than Michigan's conventional districts.
Madison-Carver Academy, an elementary school serving 300 K-6 students in Detroit, is a "district." Detroit Public Schools, with close to 100 buildings and serving more than 40,000 students, is also a "district."
In fact, about 80 percent of charter school "districts" have just a single school building, compared to just over 10 percent of conventional school districts. The truth is, the enrollment/district comparison does not provide any useful information — because it pretends large districts such as DPS are statistically equal to single-building charter schools such as Madison-Carver Academy.
A better approach is to compare school buildings to student enrollment. And there, Michigan is on track. As you can see in the chart below, the total number of school buildings, counting both charter schools and district schools, has followed the same trend as the number of students.
Despite the addition of more than 300 new charter school buildings since 1996, the number of students per school building in Michigan has hardly changed. There were 441 students per school building in 1996 and about 448 now — a mere 1.5 percent increase. There is only a small difference between charters and conventional schools: 407 students per charter school building and 453 per district school building.
State officials should worry less about the quantity of public schools and more about the quality of educational options available to Michigan families.
Right to Work Isn't the Only Option
'One or none' also gives workers, unions choice
Even with Michigan's right-to-work law, workers do not have full freedom. In bringing true fairness to both unions and workers, Michigan has the power to give public workers a complete choice when it comes to associating with a union, while at the same time lifting government unions' burden of representing nonmembers.
In Michigan, unlike non-right-to-work states, workers do not need to pay a union to keep their jobs.
However, in both types of states, employees in a unionized job must accept union representation whether they want it or not.
But right-to-work isn't the only option available for bringing real fairness to the workplace. In a few short weeks the Mackinac Center will publish a study introducing a concept called "one or none," which would allow workers to fully opt out of union representation and represent themselves.
As I detailed in a 2013 op-ed in the Detroit Free Press, opponents of right-to-work attempt to make it an issue of either/or. They claim either unions will have to represent workers who are not paying them or that workers will have to pay for unwanted representation.
Some opponents even go as far as calling workers who opt out of union representation "free riders."
However, Terry Bowman, a United Automobile Workers member and president of Union Conservatives, says there is a better term for this kind of worker: a "forced rider."
Forced riders have to accept the contract the union negotiates. And in most of those cases, people who have a problem with the employer must go through the union.
But states have the ability to solve the forced-rider problem, at least for public employees. While private-sector collective bargaining is governed by federal legislation, public-sector collective bargaining is governed by state law.
Lawmakers could simply amend state law to allow workers who do not want to associate with a union to opt out and represent themselves.
Instead of doing away with exclusive representation, a one-or-none policy could be adopted.
One-or-none legislation would not disturb the normal exclusive bargaining relationship between public employers and unions. Unions would still need to get a majority of workers to agree to representation and the one union would be the only representative in the workplace. This union would still negotiate for all unionized employees and nothing would change in terms of collective bargaining.
However, employees who do not want to be in the union would be free to represent themselves. They would not have the ability to create a minority union or create multiple unions at a workplace, but instead would be treated as normal non-union employees.
Public workers would finally be given a true choice of whether to associate with a union, accept representation and pay for it. A one-or-none law would also alleviate one of the main problems unions have with right-to-work, which is representation without pay.
If unions are doing a good job and representing their members well, nonmembers would be willing to pay for their services.
Right-to-work opponents maintain that "free riding" is unfair. While forced riding is unfair for both workers and unions, mandating that workers pay for something they do not want from a private third party simply to keep their jobs is a greater injustice.
The best option is to give workers the chance to say "no thanks," and unions the ability to say "goodbye."
(Editor's note: A version of this article appeared on the Illinois Policy Institute Blog.)
February 20, 2015, MichiganVotes Weekly Roll Call
Guns, drones and votes. Subsidies ate the budget.
Senate Bill 54, Ban using a drone to interfere with hunters: Passed 38 to 0 in the Senate
To prohibit using an aerial drone to interfere with or harass a person who is hunting. This would expand an existing law that bans interfering with or harassing hunters. Senate Bill 55 bans using a drone for hunting and also passed unanimously.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 53, Expand "gun free zone" concealed pistol exception: Passed 37 to 1 in the Senate
To revise the "gun free zone" provision of the concealed pistol permit law to exempt retired federal law enforcement officers who carried a firearm during their employment. This provision prohibits regular citizens who have received a permit after meeting the background check and training requirements from carrying a pistol in specified places including schools, bars, restaurants, churches, arenas and more.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
House Bill 4110, Revise school aid budget: Passed 62 to 48 in the House
To shift funding sources in the current year school budget to compensate for lower than expected balances in the state general fund. This is due to higher than expected payouts to corporations granted selective "tax credit" deals lasting up to 20 years by the previous administration (in many cases these are actually cash subsidies). This unexpected draw-down in some state accounts is happening despite revenue collections actually rising faster than spending this year. The bill also reduces previously authorized spending to reflect lower than expected school enrollment, and suspends payments intended to "catch up" on underfunding of the school employee pension system.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
Senate Bill 44, Hold GOP presidential primary on March 8, 2016: Passed 72 to 38 in the House
To hold the Republican presidential primary election on March 8, 2016, rather than Feb. 23 as currently authorized.
Who Voted "Yes" and Who Voted "No"
SOURCE: MichiganVotes.org, a free, non-partisan website created by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, providing concise, non-partisan, plain-English descriptions of every bill and vote in the Michigan House and Senate. Please visit http://www.MichiganVotes.org.
The Real Problem With 'Economic Development' Programs
Michigan should end the MEDC
From 1995 to 2011, Michigan ran a program that granted special tax exemptions to chosen companies. The research on this program – the Michigan Economic Growth Authority – has been pretty consistent: It was a failure.
The Mackinac Center did two studies on MEGA; a 2005 study showed that the few jobs "created" from the program were temporary and expensive and a 2009 study found that it had an overall negative impact on Michigan's economy. The Michigan Office of the Auditor General has found repeated problems with state "economic development" programs over-promising and under-delivering. The Anderson Economic Group found a negative impact on job creation. The only favorable study was done by the Upjohn Institute, but even that found only a very small positive economic effect and that the actual MEGA program was almost incidental to the state's economy. A recent review of the program showed that only 2.3 percent of the projects given tax credits ever met their job projections.
Though the program was ended in 2011, it lives on. Michigan taxpayers are on the hook for up to $9 billion over the next two decades because of credits handed out over past years. This will cause a continuing hole in the budget.
So what is the defense of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation?
MLive business columnist Rich Haglund, who has written positively and critically of its programs in the past, offers one up. In a recent article, he says that when former Gov. John Engler eliminated some "economic development" programs in the early 1990s, Michigan "quickly gained a reputation for having unilaterally disarmed in the war among the states for jobs."
He adds: "[T]he agency offers some valuable programs, particularly those that aid entrepreneurs and community development. And it has tight linkages with local economic development agencies, which would suffer if the state sacked the MEDC. The reality is that the states are engaged in a costly battle of their own making for jobs and business investment. Unless this war is somehow ended, it would be unwise for Michigan to disarm again."
This is mostly anecdotal and even Haglund admits in the piece, "[The MEDC's] overall impact on job creation is arguably minimal."
Besides the fact that the bulk of the research shows poor economic effects from Michigan's programs, there are two main reasons the state should not be in the business of deciding which companies get special favors and which have to pay to subsidize their competitors.
First, centralized planning just doesn't work. This is because of the "economic calculation problem" developed by Ludwig von Mises. In short, no centralized actor (even a large and democratically elected one like a state government) can possibly have more knowledge than the market as a whole, which means attempts at "economic development" will most often do more overall harm than good because it will misallocate resources away from their most productive use.
Second, government programs tend to expand beyond their core mission. While the MEDC and MEGA started as small, focused programs, they quickly grew larger. During the administration of former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the agency expanded into all kinds of areas, with bipartisan support. Today, much of what was done is widely recognized as having caused more economic harm than good. It's good that MEDC has shrunk – but that doesn't mean it will stay that way.
The MEDC does more political development – helping politicians look good – than economic development. The state should end it.
Members of the Michigan House of Representatives today announced efforts to reform the state's criminal laws. The efforts will be spearheaded by a working group, co-chaired by Rep. Chris Afendoulis, R-Grand Rapids Township, and Rep. Kurt Heise, R-Plymouth.
The group will identify antiquated or unnecessary criminal statutes that can be repealed, and will recommend penalties that fit the severity of the crime. A package of bills introduced would repeal numerous outdated laws. The announced reforms are part of the House Republican Action Plan.
A 2014 study published by the Mackinac Center and the Manhattan Institute found that Michigan has more than 3,100 laws on the books and has created an average of 45 new crimes in each of the last six years.
Legislators are taking an encouraging first step toward a comprehensive review of Michigan's criminal code. Its criminal law is overgrown with prohibitions that do little to protect personal safety or property. The House would do well to review even more criminal laws, particularly where the law harshly penalizes activity that most residents would consider harmless. In addition to repealing silly or outdated laws, the Legislature should enact a "default mens rea" bill, which would clarify the criminal intent required for the commission of a crime.
LaFaive in National Media
Mackinac Center experts' analysis on cigarette smuggling cited in national reports
The work of Michael D. LaFaive, Todd Nesbit, Ph. D. and Scott Drenkard is used as the basis of a reports by the Wall Street Journal, Reason, New York Post, The Sacramento Bee, The Wichita Eagle, SILive.com, CSPnet.com and several radio stations in Kansas: WHBL, WSAU, WNCY, WTAQ, WYDR. An op-ed by Dr. Nesbit also appeared in the Columbus Dispatch.
These experts show how high excise taxes on cigarettes lead to counterfeit products and tax stamps; smuggling; violence against police, people and property; and other unintended consequences.
Recommendations include cutting taxes or improving police tactics or both to reduce the smuggling problem.
LaFaive is director of the Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative.
Media Covers McHugh's Committee Testimony
Few jobs, little transparency for Michigan corporate welfare machine
Senior Legislative Analyst Jack McHugh's Feb. 18 testimony to a House committee received attention in media outlets including WOODTV, Detroit Free Press, The Detroit News, Grand Rapids Press, Lansing State Journal, WZZM 13, Battle Creek Enquirer and HometownLife.com. Members of the House Tax Policy committee expressed concern about the $9.38 billion tax credit liability estimate from Michigan Economic Development Corp (MEDC), a nearly $3 billion increase from previous estimates. McHugh's testimony also questioned the lack of economic development and transparency from the MEDC.
The Mackinac Center has done hundreds of news articles and commentaries about the lack of jobs generated by the MEDC's Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) tax credit program, which was eliminated in 2011 but is in the news because the state budget is taking a hit due to past deals.
A 2009 study and 2005 study found that state corporate welfare programs exaggerated job claims and cost more money than they were worth. Numerous reports from the Michigan Auditor General found similar results.
(Editor's note: Jack McHugh, senior legislative analyst, delivered this testimony to the Michigan House Committee on Tax Policy on Feb. 18, 2015.)
I'm going to touch on three issues in the next few minutes. First, some recent history on Michigan's government economic development programs. Second, characterizing what an extensive body of scholarly research on such efforts has found. And third, offering some reform recommendations.
In the modern era Michigan first began systematically trying to influence the direction of the economy under Gov. Kim Sigler in 1947. Since then every governor has put his or her stamp on the activity, with several major expansions along the way.
Fast forward to 1995, when Gov. John Engler created the Michigan Economic Growth Authority. This granted select firms Single Business Tax credits in in return for agreements to create a specified number of jobs — initially there was a minimum of 75 or 150 jobs.
The program was used sparingly at first, with only 15 deals during its first full year. However, by mid-2009 the statute had been amended 20 times, mostly with eligibility expansions and weakening of once-tight requirements.
As rigorous performance thresholds and standards for companies were eroded, use of the program steadily grew. In 2010, 110 MEGA deals were announced.
A graphic illustrates the rise in MEGA deals overlaid with Michigan's unemployment rate. To many observers it appeared that MEDC's main response to plummeting state employment was ever increasing job press releases. The reality was, even with its MEGA powers, the MEDC presided over arguably the worst economic decline in Michigan's history.
MEGA has been around long enough that several institutions have performed systematic studies. None of these gave a full-throated endorsement, though one had a more positive take.
- In 2010 the Michigan Auditor General reported that MEGA agreements "have a combined success rate (excluding retention credits) of 28 percent ..." relative to stated goals.
The figure overstated the impact because it did not control for how the firms without special favors fare. Studies published by the Mackinac Center in 2005 and 2009 did control for this, and found lower job creation impact.
- In 2010 the Anderson Economic Group found that the opportunity cost of running the program versus comparable across-the-board business tax cuts cost Michigan 8,200 jobs.
- Also in 2010, a study from the Upjohn Institute showed a very small positive impact.
This is the only positive assessment I am aware of. Upjohn scholars argued MEGA had created 18,000 jobs over 11 years, a very modest 1,600-plus per year.
- The Mackinac Center's 2005 MEGA study found that for every $123,000 in tax credits offered just one construction job was created, all of which disappeared within two years. The program had zero net impact on manufacturing or warehousing employment.
- In 2009 we did a second MEGA study that found a statistically significant link between MEGA and manufacturing jobs — but it was negative. For every $1 million in credits actually earned there was a loss of 95 manufacturing jobs in counties with MEGA firms.
More broadly, a great deal of academic literature exists on selective business incentive programs. Overall, the assessments are unflattering. The title of one 2004 compilation of findings tells the tale: "The Failures of Economic Development Incentives." Here's an excerpt:
Since these programs probably cost state and local governments about $40-$50 billion a year, one would expect some clear and undisputed evidence of their success. This is not the case. In fact, there are very good reasons … to believe that economic development incentives have little or no impact on firm location and investment decisions.
Why doesn't it work? In a 2009 Mackinac Center Policy Brief on Michigan's film incentive program, my colleague Mike LaFaive laid out four reasons:
- First, government has nothing to give anyone it doesn't take from someone else. At best these programs just redistribute income.
- Second, doing that costs money. Just the MEDC staff expense amounts to tens of millions annually.
- Third, it also misallocates scarce resources. MEDC employees are not imbued with Warren Buffet-like ability to pick winners and losers in the marketplace. If they were, they would be billionaire hedge fund owners, not civil servants.
- Lastly, bureaucrats are inherently inclined to make decisions based on political rather than economic factors. That's a recipe for bad performance in a competitive marketplace.
What's the solution?
The truth is these are mostly political development programs, not economic development programs. They're a perennially attractive nuisance for elected officials, but the public is catching on. The political costs of supporting these programs are starting to catch up with the perceived political benefits.
The solution is actually quite simple: Just say no, starting with the appropriations process. We estimated last year that "just say no" would save at least $300 million in the current budget. Next year it will be more. The usual counter-argument is that since other states do it this would amount to "unilateral disarmament." My response is, let the other states keep their expensive and ineffective pop-guns — we will surpass them by offering all opportunity seekers a fair field with no favors.
In the meantime, while the agency still remains, it absolutely must be made more transparent. The MEDC is almost certainly Michigan's least transparent government agency. A 2009 Mackinac Center Policy Brief gave startling details of this dismal record.
The current administration has tried to change this. Still, as the budget drama of the past few weeks has shown, the liabilities created by past MEGA deals are still surrounded in mystery, secrecy and uncertainty.
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- Who at Treasury or the MEDC decided that such data was now off limits, and why didn't they make this determination sooner?
What we do know is that after being criticized many times with rigorous specificity for poor outcomes MEDC became aggressively less transparent. Less available data means a lower likelihood that rigorous analysis of alleged "job creation" abilities would reveal these to be lacking.
We recommend the following transparency solutions:
- Demand that the MEDC or Treasury explain why "administration of a tax" secrecy applies now but not in the past.
- Require that current claims of any past MEGA credits must be accompanied by public disclosure of their value by company, agreement, and when the credits were claimed.
- Require the MEDC identify which MEGA projects are no longer active.
- Going forward, any company that accepts tax credits, abatements or subsidies should waive any right to privacy related to its transactions with the state, including cash disbursements and taxes foregone by the state.
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Fox is trying to milk every bit of viewership they can out of Idol.┬Ā That was not a two-hour show last night.┬Ā There was way too much of nothinŌĆÖ going on including blathering judges and a cameo on-stage appearance by a hecklerŌĆönow thatŌĆÖs entertainment!┬Ā And IŌĆÖve come to the realization that Ryan Seacrest is basically a second-rate host.┬Ā If AI werenŌĆÖt the juggernaut that it is, he would not be helping the show at all.┬Ā His bantering with Simon is petty and heŌĆÖs got zero charisma.┬Ā Contrast what he does with Jeff Probst of ŌĆ£SurvivorŌĆØ or Tom Bergeron on ŌĆ£Dancing With The StarsŌĆØ.┬Ā No comparison.┬Ā Now, back to our show.┬Ā Surely this is the week that Tim Urban gets the boot.┬Ā But, who knows.┬Ā And stop calling me Shirley. I said yesterday on the air that Adam Lambert was going to be the mentor for this week, but I got my wires crossed.┬Ā He wonŌĆÖt be on until next week.┬Ā They actually didnŌĆÖt even have a mentor this week.┬Ā Last night was Lennon and McCartney night, and Katie Stevens and Casey James had breakout performances.┬Ā HereŌĆÖs my take on each performance in┬Āits order of appearance:
Aaron KellyŌĆÖs
act is wearing thin.┬Ā I even predict that heŌĆÖll be in the Bottom 3 tonight.┬Ā To put it short and sweet, ŌĆ£The Long And Winding RoadŌĆØ was straight-out boring. Finally
Katie Stevens
displayed why she made it to the Top 24 in the first place.┬Ā She seemed much more confident in her ability and belted out a strong version of ŌĆ£Let It BeŌĆØ.┬Ā I certainly liked her version better that Kris AllenŌĆÖs whiny version a few weeks ago.┬Ā She might not even be in the Bottom 3 this week which would be a big break for her.
Andrew GarciaŌĆÖs
corny version of ŌĆ£CanŌĆÖt Buy Me LoveŌĆØ bought him a ticket back to the Bottom 3 again this week.┬Ā Whether he wins American Idol or notŌĆöand I donŌĆÖt think he will--
Michael Lynche
is undoubtedly the most multi-faceted talent in this competition.┬Ā Big Mike can handle every thing form R&B, to Pop, to Broadway with aplomb.┬Ā Loved his Broadway-esque take on ŌĆ£Eleanor RigbyŌĆØ.┬Ā The song lends itself to melodrama, so I think it was entirely appropriate, contrary to what Simon said about it. DidnŌĆÖt love her version of ŌĆ£Come TogetherŌĆØ by
Crystal Bowersox
, but at this point sheŌĆÖs got first or second locked up so it doesnŌĆÖt really matter what she does. Then thereŌĆÖs
Tim Urban
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Casey James
is the man!┬Ā The man to beat in this competition, anyway.┬Ā ŌĆ£StudlyŌĆØ delivered his breakout performance of the competition, channeling Bob Seger on John LennonŌĆÖs ŌĆ£Jealous GuyŌĆØ.┬Ā I love
Siobhan Magnus
.┬Ā SheŌĆÖs quirky and bold.┬Ā Who else would try to sing ŌĆ£Across The UniverseŌĆØ as a soaring diva ballad?┬Ā The phrasing alone on the song is almost impossible to pull off, and Siobhan did it┬Āadmirably.┬Ā Problem is, sheŌĆÖs just too weird to win.
Lee Dewyze
rivals Casey in talent, but ultimately I donŌĆÖt think he has the charisma to win.┬Ā ŌĆ£Hey JudeŌĆØ was a bad song choice.┬Ā The song quickly devolves into ŌĆ£Naaah Naaah Naaah Na-na-na-naahŌĆØ and when the bagpipe player came down the stairs it was just too much.┬Ā I give this one a big raspberry. HereŌĆÖs how I rank ŌĆśem this week:
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Michael Lynche
Crystal Bowersox
Siobhan Magus
Katie Stevens
Lee Dewyze
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Aaron Kelly
Tim Urban
Next week the show cuts back to an hour-and-a-half which is still too long for 8 contestants.┬Ā Expect much filler.
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I'm new to this whole thing. I set up garden boxes a few weeks ago to do square foot gardening. I'm pretty sure we did the mix right: 1/3 peat moss, 1/3 coarse vermiculite, and 1/3 compost (all I I could find was some mushroom compost, which I only used a little of, and the compost/manure mix from Lowe's).
I planted nine different cold weather crops almost two weeks ago. Things like beets, kale, kohlrabi, peas, lettuces, spinach, kale, etc. All the seed packets say 7-10 or 7-14 days. Not a single seed has sprouted. We did have some snow since then, and then it rained all day Saturday and Sunday.
What am I doing wrong? I'm paranoid that we did the mix wrong, which would obviously be really tragic because it was SO expensive.
The mix is unlikely. The snow is more likely. Every variety of seed has an optimal soil temperature for sprouting. You can check your soil temp with a digital meat thermometer.
Other reasons for failure might be too much moisture [seeds may rot] or too little.
What you really want to know is whether the seeds are still viable, which you can check by digging carefully into the soil.
Then you can either wait or re-seed.
Here is a link that might be useful: Seedling emergence chart
I'm also guessing too wet. If soil temps. were consistently below 40 degrees, only the spinach, kale and kohlrabi would germinate in three weeks or less.
Seeds are more likely to rot in cold soil. It may sound counter-intuitive because microbes are also slower to act, but the longer the germinating seed stays in the soil, the greater the risk of attack by pathogens.
Most of the above seeds with the exception of spinach prefer germination temperatures around 70 degrees. Spinach is best around 60 degrees. Once they have a few true leaves, they become much more tolerant of cold soils.
This post was edited by Slimy_Okra on Wed, Apr 2, 14 at 16:09
Wait, so was I not supposed to plant them yet? Everything said I could sow them outside in March. See how little I know?
I was definitely worried about the amount of rain we received over the weekend. Not much I could do about that, I guess.
I looked very closely this afternoon and saw that both my leaf lettuce and bibb lettuce seeds have sprouted! I was happy about that. :)
Every year is different. I think snow in late March is highly unusual for your zone (correct me if I'm wrong), so it's just one of those years where it'd have been better to wait. On the flip side, there are some years where spring arrives early and you can take a gamble and seed ahead of "schedule".


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> in the books do you think your life most resembles?" Anyone who says
> "Harry Potter" she should slap silly. Yes, there are children who live
> unhappy lives these days, but any child who gets to go see an author
> and have them autograph their copy of the book is extremely unlikely to
> one of those children. On the other hand, if a child says "Dudley
> she should shake their hand and praise them for at least being honest.
So, which one are you, Wendell? Harry or Dudley? <g>
> Then she should slap them silly for having been spoiled all their life.
In a more serious vein, I think kids probably /can/ identify with Harry
in the same way people can identify with Frodo or Sam. Not that any of
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