Browsing: COVID-19

Nearly 90,000 Wisconsin small businesses that have taken out loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will face hundreds of millions of dollars in state income tax liability on those loans this spring, despite the loans being tax-free at the federal level.

Streamlined licensing reciprocity should be made permanent and extended to other professions

Wisconsin’s small cities offer an escape for suddenly mobile metropolitan workers long cramped by a viral lockdown

With fewer students and huge deficits likely, the state should consider closing some campuses and following online model for certain courses

Governments are instrumental in wars, natural disasters and, we’ve found, pandemics.

A statewide and county-by-county analysis

Balancing risks with freedom

Economic impact varies widely across Wisconsin counties

Plan would take into account regional risk factors and let consumers decide

Wisconsinites rush to help neighbors in need during crisis, prove fundamental goodness of civil society

Bill includes coalition recommendations for addressing the crisis

The unprecedented COVID crisis has devastated Wisconsin families, businesses and schools. The coming weeks will be deeply challenging as the state tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. Now, more than ever, public policy matters.

Highway funding, which relies on the gas tax, will be hard hit as fuel sales decline

Wisconsin’s minimum markup law is particularly egregious when Wisconsinites are suffering

A free-market coalition of the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL), Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, the Badger Institute, and MacIver Institute have pooled their resources to offer some solutions and policy recommendations to assist the state’s workers and businesses, provide more certainty during the crisis, and spur a quick and lasting recovery.

In wake of COVID-19, telehealth regulations have been loosened; those changes should remain even after crisis is over

These principles should guide Wisconsin lawmakers as they confront the current public health and economic crisis

After Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order to cut red tape on medical licensing, the Badger Institute, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, The MacIver Institute and Americans for Prosperity urge the governor and state Legislature to continue to cut red tape to fight the coronavirus pandemic in Wisconsin.

Home detention one option for helping prevent virus’ spread while maintaining public safety