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Tax reform options to improve Wisconsin’s Competitiveness

A new report from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute offers five comprehensive tax reform options to enhance Wisconsin’s tax competitiveness by reducing harmful taxes on labor and investment.

Policymakers should advance reforms that prioritize GSP, personal income growth

By now, the health emergency has little to do with it

At the time the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its first major assessment of federal COVID-19 spending in March, more than 400 people had pleaded guilty to defrauding the programs and another 550 had been charged with felony fraud.

With cost overruns on bridge, road and other infrastructure megaprojects in Wisconsin as certain as death, taxes and Packers’ title-run failures, budget hawks are on high alert with new federal money about to inundate the state.

Sometime during the 2023 session, the Wisconsin Legislature is expected to approve a resolution proposing that voters consider amending the state constitution to restore long-lost legislative oversight of major federal spending initiatives in the state.

Voters have amended the state constitution 146 times. Will they do it again?

Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.

Reforms would expand oversight of federal funds, school and health care options, increase workforce participation.

The Badger Institute today announced partnerships with several leading research organizations and subject matter experts who will contribute to its 2022 Mandate for Madison, a policy roadmap for the governor and Legislature beginning in 2023.

The following is testimony delivered by Badger Institute Senior Vice President Michael Jahr in favor of AB 692, a bill designed to eliminate the marriage penalty for participants in the Wisconsin Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program.

On February 1, 2022, Badger Institute President Mike Nichols testified in favor of AJR 112 before the members of the Assembly Committee on Constitution and Ethics.

Coalition letter to Wisconsin legislators regarding proposed propane tax

New staff and board members will increase institute’s reach and impact

Public-private hybrids underperform and are fraught with risk 

Inside a $1.2 trillion bill, state Republicans say, is a progressive spending dream list 

Gov. Evers wants to use $100 million in COVID funding to underwrite a ‘fund of funds’ 

No strings attached entitlements for targeted groups is preview of something more permanent 

Progressives ignore past failures, and have no idea how to pay for a ‘greater society’