Browsing: Taxes

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’ 

Bob Woodson — the Black, onetime civil rights activist who stresses time and again that poor, Black people can be agents of their own uplift — has this bit that he does when speaking to largely white audiences.

Many workers will see more in their 2022 paychecks as a result

Failure to do so will result in taxpayers providing a $700 million interest-free loan to the government in both 2021 and 2022

Tax relief in 2021-’23 budget will provide substantial relief to individuals, families and businesses

Changes to TPP, UI, and tax brackets are all being debated

A menu of pro-growth tax reform options from the Tax Foundation and the Badger Institute.

An unnecessary second stimulus is an invitation for state, county and local officials to act irresponsibly with our tax money

Federal dollars drove personal, small bankruptcies down, but Chapter 11s were flat and could spike

Massive federal spending leaves many in the Badger State better off, but the bill is coming due

Some of the governor’s budget proposals to help low-income families are ineffective, ripe for abuse or better left to the private sector
By Angela Rachidi
March 16, 2021

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.

The policy decisions state policymakers make in the months ahead will have far-reaching implications for how quickly jobs and wages are restored in Wisconsin.

Climate change has been blamed over the years for the rise … and fall … and rise again of lake levels

Preferential contracts undermine the truly disadvantaged, and programs are prone to fraud