Tom McMillin In The News

The Most Dangerous Voice in The House?

The Lowdown – Oct. 27, 2009

http://www.mackinac.org/11222

Lawmakers Tackle Film Credit Transparency

http://www.mackinac.org/12627

New Legislators Show Up Veterans by Providing Office Spending Transparency

Rookie politicians reveal names, salaries of staff

http://www.mackinac.org/10263

Republican Cost-Saving Reforms Key In School Aid Budget Passage

[House Minority Leader] Elsenheimer praised the efforts of Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, who lead the charge to include the reforms in the current K-12 budget.

http://www.gophouse.com/readarticle.asp?id=5978&District=105

McMillin Posts His Entire Benefit Package

http://www.gophouse.com/readarticle.asp?id=6061&District=45

House approves $100 million in tax credits for planned alternative energy park in Wixom

State Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, criticized the legislation, saying the minimum requirement that the companies create 300 new jobs is too low.

"In the enormous budget crisis our state is in, how in the world can paying a non- Michigan company $333,000 per job be the answer?" McMillin asked.

http://www.mlive.com/business/detroit/index.ssf/2009/09/house_approves_100_million_in.html

McMillin Gets Transparency in School Budgets

http://coreprinciples.blogspot.com/2009/10/mcmillin-gets-transparency-in-school.html

EDITORIAL: State tax credit group needs extensive probe

Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills, is calling for the House to also conduct hearings on the tax credits and says he would like to serve on the committee holding the sessions.

He says the economic development program may have doled out an estimated $150 million in tax credits erroneously in the past five years due to a lack of oversight.

McMillin says he bases his $150 million figure on an extrapolated estimate. In talks with the auditor general’s office, he was told that only 7 percent of the tax credits granted were studied and of that total, $2.6 million was found to be wrongly authorized. Consequently, he estimates about $30 to $35 million in tax credits were incorrectly granted per year, or about $150 million over the five-year history of the program.

The representative says there needs to be more transparency in the program’s operation.

“We should allow our citizens to be able to see — maybe by going to a website — what companies got in tax credits and how many jobs they created,” he says. “That’s a way to make sure the money is going to where it should be going, by making it public or transparent.” He also wants the state reimbursed for all of the money lost.

We agree that hearings should be conducted — not only in the Senate but in the House — and the program’s oversight procedures need to be vastly improved.

We’d also like to see more transparency. The public has a right to know where its tax dollars are going.

http://theoaklandpress.com/articles/2010/05/04/opinion/doc4be0f5294bde3490396725.txt

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