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Livingston Daily - "Think Tank Leaders Discuss Budget Crisis"


By The Center for Michigan - October 16, 2007

They came with very different perspectives, but leaders of two public policy think tanks speaking in the county Tuesday agreed on a couple of things about Michigan's budget crisis — spending on corrections and public employee benefits needs to be reined in.Both Phil Power of The Center for Michigan and Larry Reed of The Mackinac Center pointed to those two issues as parts of a possible solution to the chronic budget deficits facing lawmakers in Lansing.

But other than that, the two men recommended different approaches to turning the state around.
They spoke at a Good Morning Livingston breakfast at Crystal Gardens conference center in Genoa Township, sponsored by the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce.

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