 mi senate votes to subsidize electric car venture it would appear that the michigan legislators are still in the practice of granting corporate welfare to businesses they deem are worthy this as a practice that was common under the granholm administration and that governor snyder swore would stop in his administration i guess the michigan senate has determined that they are so business savvy in the area of automative related ventures that they can and will pick who the winners will be i guess the senate didn rsquo t realize that the electric cars business isn rsquo t doing so well two weeks ago one of the firms that benefitted from a 100 million state electric car battery subsidy announced the layoff of 125 michigan workers i guess they know that this one will work out the governor has this one right the state shouldn rsquo t be spending our tax dollars to support ventures that have a proven track record of failures actually they shouldn rsquo t be in the business of favoring any business at all for an article on the decision of the michigan senate to grant a subsidy to a new electric car company click on the following story link  http wwwmichigancapitolconfidentialcom 16148 mid 551576 19 i ve said it before and i i ve said it before and i will say it again we have elected another rhino when we learn ida salisbury  senate votes subsidize electric car venture  