Browsing: State Budget

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.

Claims that the streetcar swayed major development decisions in downtown Milwaukee are off track

A primer on Wisconsin’s unsustainable transportation revenues

Context and Trends

Income tax credits paired with numerous tax increases.

Wisconsin’s deal should be scrapped for reasons far beyond the possible switch from factory jobs to research jobs

New Badger Institute book finds federal grants deprive us of our money, liberty and trust.

How federal grants are depriving us of our money, liberty and trust in government – and what we can do about it. This book by the Badger Institute urges states to push back.

An empowered treasurer could be an independent voice for fiscal sanity

Institute and Tax Foundation moving forward with analysis of state tax structure and policy recommendations for 2019 budget.

Private contractors help states grab more U.S. dollars at the expense of serving children and the poor

Federal regulations force school districts to spend that money or face funding cuts

Wisconsin’s huge investment hinges on the ever-evolving world of display technology

And how tax reform and transportation upgrades can help Wisconsin take full advantage

It’s budget time in Madison. Get out your wallet.

More than it used to be, but Mayor Barrett fails to count all the state’s funding to the city or how much other communities give

Litscher: “We’re in a slow creep”

On Jan. 24, 2017, Mike Nichols, WPRI president, and Dan Benson, editor of the Project for 21st Century Federalism, testified in Madison before the Assembly Committee on Federalism and Interstate Relations. Here is a transcript of their presentation.

In the past 30 years, metro Madison grew 45%; metro Milwaukee grew just 11%. What caused the difference in outcomes for two cities separated by only 75 miles? The answer lies in Wisconsin politics.

The funding disparity between UWM and UW-Madison reflects that the two institutions have sharply different histories and are in many ways two different animals.