Steve Johnson: 'If your business model is based on getting subsidies from the government, you’re just not that successful' - The Midwesterner

Steve Johnson: 'If your business model is based on getting subsidies from the government, you’re just not that successful' - The Midwesterner

At a hearing of the Oversight Subcommittee on Corporate Subsidies and State Investments, chaired by Rep. Steve Carra, R-Three Rivers, lawmakers heard testimony on the impact of Michigan’s corporate subsidy programs. Former Republican state representative Steve Johnson, who now works for the Center for Practical Federalism, argued that subsidies fail both morally and practically. “For me, I look at the morality of it, corporate subsidies. At its …