What you want from Wisconsin in 2025
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What will it take to make Wisconsin among the best places in America to live, work and do business? The Badger Institute has pulled together some of the best minds in the state and the country to offer answers. The Mandate for Madison is a book full of ideas and solutions about public policy centered on how to improve Wisconsin, offering research and recommendations from a remarkable set of scholars who bring extraordinary insight into Wisconsin’s situation. These options offer a fast start to correct the problems holding back our state.
Badger Institute’s latest:
How Wisconsin can reverse its drift toward unaffordable homes
What works for Wisconsin housing is letting the market build: easing the zoning, lot size, and permitting rules that artificially constrain supply.
The only remedy for government discrimination is to make it stop discriminating
If Wisconsinites really do want our government to stop racially discriminating, we’ll need to put it in our constitution.
How to overcome Wisconsin’s income tax competitiveness problem
Wisconsin should replace its current graduated individual income tax with a single-rate structure and set that rate as low as fiscal conditions responsibly allow.
