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  Whitmer's 2024 budget eyes $318M in subsidies for electric vehicles (The Center Square) – Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s proposed $79 billion budget for fiscal year 2024 aims to require taxpayers subsidize electric vehicles and chargers with $318 million. Whitmer’s mobility budget includes $160 million for capital investments in rail, bus, and marine transit service expansions, $65 million for EV charging stations , and $48 million over two years for an EV sales and use tax exemption. Jason Hayes, director of environmental policy at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said Whitmer's EV proposal “skews tax policy” in favor of EV producers and the small number of people who can afford them.

  Prices so far vary by country, but the latest countries hi t by fees are being asked to pay more than was charged in initial tests -- that is, the fees got pricier during Netflix's official rollout.  In Chile, Costa Rica and Peru, where these fees were first tested since last year, the average charge for an extra member subaccount was priced at roughly 25% the cost of a Standard plan in each country, on average. That means if Netflix were to stick to that practice, then each extra member subaccount in the US would cost between about $3.50 and $4 per month.  But Wednesday, Netflix launched the fees in the first wave of countries as part of its official worldwide rollout of account sharing. And in these countries -- Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain -- the prices for extra members are meaningfully higher, sometimes twice as much. On average, Netflix set the fee for extra members in these first-wave countries at 43% the price of a Standard plan in each coun...