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Mike Rogers: “20% higher utility rates.”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Conservative | Former Candidate, U.S. Senate Michigan

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Published July 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 01:07

We lost 30,000 manufacturing jobs. We have the highest income tax here in the state of Michigan in the Midwest between Indiana and Ohio, who we compete with 20% higher utility rates. So those bills, and by the way, these are all affirmative things. The Democrats have done that. We're living with the consequences. And I looked at it and thought, gosh, we lost all the defense industrial base. (01:07–01:10)

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Asserts that Michigan's utility rates are 20% higher than those in Indiana and Ohio.

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