Hemp Revenue.
Minimum Taxation.
Maximum Michigan.
A trillion-dollar hemp industry does not just create jobs. It fundamentally changes who funds Michigan government. Instead of taxing the people who can least afford it, Michigan collects a modest tithe from the industries that profit from Michigan’s land, workforce, and resources. The result: fully funded roads, schools, and public safety, with the lowest individual tax burden in the nation, and a business climate so favorable that the auto industry, steel industry, and manufacturers that left Michigan will come back.
Stop Taxing People.
Start Taxing Industry.
The way Michigan funds its government today is backwards. Working families pay income tax on wages they already earned. Homeowners pay property tax on land they already own. Small businesses pay taxes that make it harder to hire the next employee. The people who built Michigan pay for everything. The corporations that extracted Michigan’s wealth for generations pay as little as their lobbyists can negotiate.
The hemp economy flips this entirely. When Michigan generates a trillion dollars in hemp industry commerce, a 10% tithe on that commerce, collected from processors, manufacturers, exporters, and commercial producers, generates more revenue than Michigan’s entire current tax structure. Not from families. From industry. From commerce. From the value created by Michigan’s land and Michigan’s labor.
10% of Industry. 0% on Families.
A tithe is not a punishing tax rate. It is a fair share. Every processor who takes Michigan hemp and turns it into fiber pays 10%. Every manufacturer who builds hempcrete or hemp plastic in Michigan pays 10%. Every exporter who ships Michigan hemp products to the world pays 10%. The family that grows the hemp on their 40 acres in the Upper Peninsula pays nothing beyond a minimal licensing fee. Their income from selling that crop is theirs. The tithe is collected up the chain, from the industries that profit at scale, not from the individuals who do the work.
What $1 Trillion Funds
at a 10% Tithe
Michigan’s entire current state budget is approximately $82 billion annually. Here is what a maturing Michigan hemp economy, taxed at a modest 10% tithe on commercial activity, generates versus what Michigan actually needs to fund:
Michigan Hemp Revenue Projection vs. State Budget Needs
$180B
$18B annually
$4.5B
$16B
$2.8B
$500M
$23.8B
$100B+ annually
$82B
$18B+
This means Michigan has more than enough revenue to fund every obligation the state currently has, eliminate individual income tax entirely, reduce or eliminate property tax, and still have surplus left for economic development and small business investment. Not through creative accounting. Through building an industry large enough that a modest share of its commerce exceeds the entire current tax base.
Every Michigan Priority.
Fully Funded.
Without Taxing You.
Individual Income Tax
Michigan workers keep every dollar they earn. No withholding. No April filing. The state funds itself from commerce, not from paychecks.
Michigan Roads
Fully funded road reconstruction across the entire state, with priority to the Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan, from hemp commerce revenue. No more crumbling infrastructure while the money disappears.
Schools and Teachers
Michigan teachers paid competitively. School facilities repaired. No more millage votes. No more underfunded classrooms. Education funded by industrial revenue, not property taxes on family homes.
Law Enforcement
Every Michigan county and municipality with the public safety resources it needs. Rural sheriffs departments that have been understaffed for decades finally have the budget to protect their communities.
Small Business Fund
A revolving seed capital fund giving Michigan entrepreneurs, family farms, and small business owners access to low-interest startup loans. Built from hemp surplus. Paid back. Reinvested. Generational.
Property Tax
As hemp revenue grows, property tax is systematically reduced. Michigan homeowners and farmers keep more of what they own. Land becomes an asset again, not a recurring bill to the government.
Zero Tax Burden.
Industry Comes Back.
Michigan lost its manufacturing base for one primary reason: the cost of doing business became higher than the cost of leaving. High corporate taxes. High property taxes. High labor costs driven partly by workers needing to compensate for high personal taxes. The auto industry left. Steel left. Suppliers left. Entire cities hollowed out.
When Michigan eliminates individual income tax and dramatically reduces property tax, the calculus reverses. A manufacturer looking at Michigan versus Ohio, Tennessee, or Mexico is now looking at a state where workers take home more money, land costs less to hold, and the regulatory environment supports production rather than extracting from it. Add a hemp supply chain that provides raw materials for automotive components, construction materials, and industrial textiles right here in Michigan, and the case for returning becomes compelling.
Auto Industry
Hemp-based composites are already replacing fiberglass, plastic, and metal in automotive components. BMW, Mercedes, and Ford have all used hemp fiber in door panels, trunk liners, and dashboards. A Michigan auto industry using Michigan hemp as a raw material supply has lower input costs, a domestic supply chain, and a workforce that takes home more money because they pay no income tax.
Steel and Manufacturing
Heavy manufacturing left Michigan because the tax burden on operations, property, and payroll made it uncompetitive. Remove individual income tax. Reduce property tax. Offer hemp-derived industrial materials as a cost-competitive raw material alternative. Michigan becomes the most attractive manufacturing state in the Midwest, not through corporate welfare and handouts, but through a structural economic advantage no other state can replicate.
Construction and Housing
Michigan has a housing crisis driven partly by construction costs. Hempcrete, hemp insulation, and hemp fiberboard are cost-competitive alternatives to conventional building materials. Michigan builders using Michigan hemp materials, with a workforce unburdened by income tax, can build more housing at lower cost, making Michigan the most affordable state in the Great Lakes region to live and build in.
Technology and Startups
The technology industry is increasingly location-independent. Founders and employees choose where to live based on quality of life and take-home pay. A Michigan with zero income tax, world-class universities at Michigan Tech, Michigan State, and U of M, and a cost of living far below coastal cities becomes a magnet for exactly the kind of high-value technology companies that other states spend billions in corporate incentives trying to attract. Michigan does it by simply letting people keep their money.
Agriculture and Food Processing
Michigan is already a top ten agricultural state. Hemp adds an entirely new category of high-value crop that integrates with existing farm operations. Hemp food processing, hemp oil extraction, hemp protein manufacturing, and hemp-based livestock feed production all create new value-added industries in rural Michigan communities that have been economically stagnant for a generation.
Energy and Utilities
Hemp biofuel and hemp biomass energy production can reduce Michigan’s dependence on out-of-state energy, lower utility costs for Michigan residents and businesses, and create an entirely new energy sector employing Michigan workers. When combined with the Great Lakes’ wind and water energy potential, Michigan becomes an energy-independent state, insulated from the price manipulation of oil cartels.
Michigan Today vs.
Michigan With Hemp Revenue
| Tax or Budget Item | Michigan Today | Michigan with Hemp Revenue | Impact on Families |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual income tax | 4.25% on all earned income | Target: Eliminated | Average family keeps $2,400 more per year |
| Property tax | Among highest in Midwest | Systematically reduced as hemp revenue grows | Homeowners and farmers keep more of what they own |
| Road funding | Chronically underfunded, worst roads in nation | Fully funded from hemp tithe | No more vehicle damage, lower transportation costs |
| School funding | Per-pupil funding varies wildly by district | Fully equalized from hemp revenue | Every Michigan child gets the same educational investment |
| Small business capital | Largely inaccessible to rural and low-income founders | $500M revolving seed fund from hemp surplus | Michigan families can build businesses without corporate backing |
| Manufacturing competitiveness | High costs driving industry out of state | Zero income tax creates strongest recruitment environment in region | Jobs return. Cities rebuild. Communities thrive. |
| Business tax climate | Complex, high, unpredictable | Simple tithe on commerce. Predictable. Low. | Entrepreneurs can plan and build without tax uncertainty |
“The greatest weapon a government can have against its own people is the power to tax them into dependency. The greatest weapon a people can have against a corrupt government is an economy so productive it no longer needs to.”
The principle behind the Michigan Hemp Economic Sovereignty Plan
A trillion-dollar hemp economy, at a 10% tithe, generates more than this annually. Michigan does not have a revenue problem. Michigan has a revenue source problem. Hemp solves it. The people of Michigan stop being the primary source of government funding. Industry takes that role. And Michigan families, for the first time in generations, get to keep what they earn.
The Goal Is Simple:
Michigan Families Keep Their Money.
Every policy decision I make as Governor will be measured against one standard: does this reduce the burden on Michigan families or increase it? The hemp economy is not just an agricultural initiative. It is a fiscal strategy. A deliberate, long-term plan to build a revenue base so large and so productive that the state no longer needs to reach into your paycheck, your property value, or your small business to fund itself.
Roads that work. Schools that are fully funded. Law enforcement with the resources to protect every community. A seed fund that builds Michigan businesses from the ground up. And a tax burden so low that the auto industry, the steel industry, the manufacturers and entrepreneurs who left Michigan look back and see a state that has made it worth coming home.
That is what hemp makes possible. That is what this campaign is building toward.