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- ‘We still need to pave our roads’
- Where the precipitous drop in birthrates is a very, very good thing
- How the pandemic is now used to make politicians look wonderful
- Tony Evers and why voters are going to be skeptical of what comes next
- Supreme Court gives governor’s bureaucrats free rein
- Robocars vs. overpriced groceries
- Antiquated Wisconsin law doesn’t allow driverless vehicles
- Plenty of time left for good policy in Wisconsin Legislature
Browsing: Government Transparency
A menu of pro-growth tax reform options from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.
The Evers administration included a $100 million public venture capital fund in its state budget proposal. While the Republican-controlled Legislature cut 400 items from the governor’s budget, this measure survived. In an open letter, the Wisconsin Free Market Coalition today calls on legislators to jettison this expensive and risky proposal.
Why Wisconsin shouldn’t spend $100 million in taxpayer money to invest in private enterprise
An unnecessary second stimulus is an invitation for state, county and local officials to act irresponsibly with our tax money
Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due
Badger Institute Public Affairs Associate David Fladeboe submitted written testimony in favor of 2021 AB 149 before the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Constitution and Ethics on March 10, 2021.
2021 AB 149 would increase the Legislature’s role in approving the expenditure of federal funds related to 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.
As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden
Brief suggests ways to make officer discipline fair, quick, transparent and decisive
Preferential contracts undermine the truly disadvantaged, and programs are prone to fraud
The current system is vulnerable to politics and perverse incentives
Even failed and troubled ones like the Job Corps training centers are nearly impossible to shut down
Travaux, the authority’s nonprofit arm, has strong ties to Milwaukee city government
The Milwaukee Housing Authority competes with private developers with its luxury apartment project downtown
Last month, the Wisconsin Department of Revenue released data showing the state’s general fund tax collections for fiscal year (FY) 2019 were up nearly $1.2 billion, or 7.4 percent, from FY 2018, and nearly $703 million higher than anticipated when the state’s FY 2018-19 budget was adopted.
The use of historic designation nowadays often has nothing to do with preservation
The Foxconn lesson: State should level the playing field, not offer firm-specific incentives
Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs
James Madison would be dismayed by his namesake capital’s role in relinquishing local control to get federal grants
Wisconsin newspapers fail to disclose left-wing funding sources for hundreds of stories they publish
New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.