Work

Published articles, notable interviews and other work by John Mozena:

The Tennessean: Nashville didn’t need to make a deal with Amazon

Crain’s Detroit Business: Money for roads hidden by corporate tax breaks

Indianapolis Star: Indy’s proposed soccer stadium deal unfriendly to taxpayers

Detroit News: Amazon retreats from NYC subsidies

Cato Daily Podcast: When Sweetheart Economic Development Deals Fail

Detroit News: Michigan can’t afford bipartisan corporate welfare

The Des Moines Register: It’s time to total the bill for Iowa’s tax credit spending spree (Also ran in the Quad-City Times and Cedar Rapids Gazette.)

The Oakland Press: Demand honesty on state’s economic development subsidies

Detroit News: Development incentives don’t benefit communities

Tough Talk With Taros: Why Corporate Welfare Doesn’t Work

Detroit News: Don’t use Amazon to defend new transit taxes

Think Freely Media: Creepy? The Real Facebook Risk is to Free Speech

Think Freely Media: Education Choice Is About Kids, Not Schools

Watchdog.org: Lawsuit claims retailer’s new gun sales policy violates Michigan civil rights law

Think Freely Media: Government Unions Work For Their Members, Not for You

Detroit News: More Michigan voters won’t promote democracy

Watchdog.org: Environmental rulemaking reform advances in Michigan legislature

Think Freely Media: Mayors Gamble Big on Amazon With High Stakes for Taxpayers

Watchdog.org: Larry Nassar scandal revives support in Michigan legislature for university legal transparency

Detroit News: We lost Amazon, so end corporate welfare

Crain’s Detroit Business (Blog post quote): Long, complex road ahead for MSU

Think Freely Media: The Problem with the Federal Budget Is That There’s No Federal Budget

Watchdog.org: Transparency advocates: Detroit’s FOIA delay highlights flaws in Michigan’s transparency law

Think Freely Media: Venezuelan Socialists Blame Capitalism for Socialism’s Starvation

Detroit Free Press (Interview): Detroit’s Amazon bid pitches big tax breaks, cheap labor costs, possible ferry to Windsor

Watchdog.org: Family business or failed institution? Familiar names line up for Congress in metro Detroit

Detroit News: Enjoy Detroit’s new skyscraper: You’re paying for it

Watchdog.org: Metro Detroit transit tax deadline looms next year

Foundation for Economic Education: Be a Libertarian Who Cares

Think Freely Media: Jones Act Corporate Welfare Should Be Abolished – Not Just Suspended

Think Freely Media: Why Shouldn’t I Have the Right to Leave A Union?

Atlas Network (Interview): Pension Reform in Michigan, Pennsylvania Shows Shifting Public Opinion

WDTK-FM (Interview): Brandon Brice Show

Crain’s Detroit Business: MEDC CEO Wrong to Say He Has Blueprint for State’s Economy

Forbes: Michigan’s Journey From Single-State Recession to Fiscal Reform Leadership

Mackinac.org: George Orwell and Humpty Dumpty Economic Policy

WJR-AM (Interview): Detroit Children’s Business Fair

Michigan Radio (Interview): Mackinac Center’s Report on Licensing Shows That I’m a Closeted Right-Winger

Mackinac.org: Should Construction Workers Pay Taxes to Billionaires?

Michigan Chronicle: Wayne County Shouldn’t Subsidize a Soccer Stadium

Mackinac.org: Michigan Wins When Immigrants Face a Fair and Predictable System

Mackinac.org: The Hypocrisy of “Public” Education Rhetoric

Detroit Metro Times (Interview): Mackinac Center for Public Policy: Voters Shouldn’t Subsidize Pistons Move 

Mackinac.org: Resisting the Deforming Power of Government

Crain’s Detroit Business: Detroit’s Tax Climate Hurts Mobility Effort

Mackinac.org: Voters Reject Detroit-Area Transit Boondoggle

CBS Detroit (Interview): Will RTA Transit Tax Fix Regional Woes?

Mackinac.org: A $4.6 Billion Transit Millage Is a Tax Too Far for Detroit

Detroit News: Wayne County Taxes Already Too High

Mackinac.org: Imaginary Murder Pets Versus Michelle Obama

Michigan Capitol Confidential: Some Michigan Universities Spend Huge Money Subsidizing Sports