Recently, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy — a right-wing think tank funded heavily by the Koch brothers — penned an article attacking the Michigan Office of Retirement Services (ORS) for recent accounting errors. While the errors were real, the alleged inability of the agency to ably handle Michigan’s state-run pension systems was greatly overblown. The Mackinac Center’s goal on this issue is not to create clear public policy. In fact, it is to create a smokescreen so that billions of dollars can be stolen from hard-working Michigan citizens and handed over to their corporate funders.