Browsing: State Budget

As streetcar ridership and funding dwindle, alderman warns of long-term fiscal burden

Policymakers will need to look to reforms to address overcrowding issues

Wisconsin would be worse off had responsible budgeting not produced healthy surplus, rainy day fund
By David Fladeboe
April 6, 2020

Wisconsin’s prison system will require hundreds of millions of dollars for new construction, operating costs just to keep up with population growth

The Democratic Party’s track record and the event’s unknown price tag suggest taxpayers may be on the hook for Milwaukee’s July convention

The bulk of the wealth of the very rich is in business assets, which benefit the economy

Over 180 credit unions and banks across Wisconsin already offer student loan refinancing products and/or student loans.

State government needn’t have a hand in retirement-savings fix; private-sector options already proliferate

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