John Mozena
@johnmoz
Fighting corporate welfare at @AccountableEcon. Fellow at @ReasonFdn, @BCP_Policy, @ITRFoundation, @BIPPS. Opinions=mine. #DCTID
The @DetroitCityFC season starts this week, so it’s time for my annual preemptive apology to anyone who follows me on Twitter for economic development policy or other substantive stuff and instead gets a dose of American minor-league soccer supporter culture. #DCTID
Economic development subsidies are a bad business strategy and terrible for taxpayers, please stop doing this and listen to me and @johnmoz instead: cei.org/news_releases/…
Panasonic is scaling back production at its De Soto factory but can still get all taxpayer incentives from Kansas "Panasonic doesn’t have to hire 4,000 people and the company isn’t required to pay workers a decent wage. The factory doesn’t have to produce batteries and the…
When you see this stuff, remember that DTE makes more guaranteed profit from your electric bills building new things like solar arrays than it does by selling you electricity or maintaining the existing grid.
DTE Energy lawsuit aims to override local regulations on solar power plants, citing 2023 law themidwesterner.news/2025/07/dte-en… via @Th_Midwesterner
Almost a decade ago, my friend & former colleague @bendegrow published studies laying out the simple truth that sending more money to a school in Michigan doesn’t automatically improve the education kids get there. Education establishment hated it, but we keep proving him right.
I covered education for more than a decade, and I know how smart and passionate our school leaders are. These results are baffling and frustrating. Michigan spent big to fix schools. The result: Worse scores and plenty of blame bridgemi.com/talent-educati… via @BridgeMichigan
@johnmoz and CEI's @RichardMorrison reveal how so-called “economic development” programs enrich companies and politicians at the taxpayers expense. Full report here: cei.org/publication/co…
A great conversation with defender-of-taxpayers @johnmoz in Episode 132 of @freethe_economy. No more welfare for billionaires! youtube.com/watch?v=OrcNiB…
Listen in on this week’s episode of @freethe_economy podcast! They talk about subsidies, tax abatements, cronyism, the Ferguson Riots, Amazon HQ2, and the path forward for responsible business practice. cei.org/blog/free-the-…
New episode of @freethe_economy: Corporate Responsibility and Taxpayer Protections w/ @johnmoz buzzsprout.com/2096503/episod…
The price tag to Michigan's taxpayers for this plant was reportedly going to be ~$22 billion. That's more than the entire state's annual General Fund budget, or more than an entire year's worth of the School Aid Fund. How did anyone think this is a good idea?
Michigan loses massive semiconductor plant. Whitmer blames ‘national economic turmoil’ bit.ly/44BgVAF
Hey, look, the company who could not be named is finally named after it says it won’t build. According to the latest annual report, the local development group had been given $259,247,683 and had spend $139,387,593 as of October 2024. So they had another 10 months where they…
Plans scrapped for massive semiconductor factory near Flint ebx.sh/wsHZEm
This @ceidotorg report (linked below) is interesting reading and highlights just how problematic subsidies can be. Subsidies are everywhere. In a perfect world, there would be none, and we’d have a low tax rate and a broad base. Regrettably, we do not live in a perfect world.
👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from @RichardMorrison and myself published today by @ceidotorg. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."
It was a great experience co-authoring with the smart and principled defender of taxpayers @johnmoz. CEOs of America: It's not too late to ditch unpopular ESG policies and embrace true responsible business instead!
👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from @RichardMorrison and myself published today by @ceidotorg. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."
250 years ago, Adam Smith figured out that places became wealthy through "peace, easy taxes and a tolerable administration of justice." Get those things wrong, and your community's prosperity suffers.
Completely unpredictable! 2020 shot: Seattle passes "Amazon" payroll tax aimed at punishing large companies 2025 Chaser: Payroll tax revenue plummets as companies leave the city. (h/t @Rothmus)
New York City's economic development programs ($100 million in avgas sales tax exemptions for airlines?) are a textbook example of MLK's line about "socialism for the rich, and rugged free-market capitalism for the poor."
Even more specifically, we'd suggest @ZohranKMamdani take a close look at @NYCFinance's annual report on tax expenditures, which is chock-full of details on where the corporate welfare is flowing in NYC: nyc.gov/assets/finance…