Gov. candidate Schauer says plan would generate "tens of thousands" of jobs; Snyder camp calls it "empty rhetoric"

Gov. candidate Schauer says plan would generate "tens of thousands" of jobs; Snyder camp calls it "empty rhetoric" | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Schauer laid out his 10-point plan to create jobs Tuesday, a plan he said would generate “tens of thousands” of jobs.
“This is the blueprint that we will use to restore the Michigan dream,” Schauer said in front of a group of supporters at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 333 training facility in Lansing.
Schauer said he would reverse many of Gov. Rick Snyder’s policies, including right to work, the tax on some pension income, the elimination of the child tax credit, the roll back of the Homestead Property Tax credit, and what Schauer says have been cuts to education.
Schauer’s 10-point plan includes spending more on K-12 education, cutting taxes for middle class families, cutting taxes for small businesses, fixing roads and increasing the state’s clean energy standard to 35 percent by 2035.
Schauer wants to help attract jobs to the state by creating an initiative inside the Michigan Economic Development Corp. to assist businesses looking to expand here and bring jobs from other states or countries. He also wants to establish an innovation hub that would bring together the research arm of the state’s universities and the state’s largest companies, expand micro-lending to spur growth of high-tech companies and provide tax credits to small businesses.
The 24-page plan includes at least two dozen proposals that call for increased spending or reduced taxes, with far fewer proposals that would generate additional revenue or cut spending to pay for his initiatives.
When asked how he would pay for many of these proposals, Schauer’s answer often was to cut waste and fraud from state government and weed out unnecessary state spending."