SOAR is dead, now what? Speaker Matt Hall focused on real relief for existing businesses, taxpayers

SOAR is dead, now what? Speaker Matt Hall focused on real relief for existing businesses, taxpayers

After billions spent on corporate welfare with little to show for it, Republicans are dismantling Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve. Lawmakers earlier this month drained the last $450 million from the fund created in 2021 to court General Motors’ next generation of automobile plants for other priorities in Michigan’s FY2027 budget following scores of documented failures. And while the future of Michigan’s economic…