Eliminating tax incentives to attract businesses is like playing a game of Whack-A-Mole. Knock one down and another pops up.
Gov. Rick Snyder sought to end such incentives when he and the Legislature killed the Michigan Economic Growth Authority, which offered lucrative business-tax credits, in 2011.
Image: Switch, a Nevada company that specializes in operating large-scale data centers, announced it will convert the former Steelcase pyramid into SUPERNAP Michigan, a data center that will result in a $5 billion investment and 1,000 new jobs over the next 10 year — provided Michigan adopts a series of bills designed to provide data centers with tax breaks. (Neil Blake/MLive.com)
