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:

Wisconsin’s childcare subsidies, regulations fail for families
With important reforms, Wisconsin can meet both the demands of ensuring safe and affordable childcare for Wisconsin families while controlling overall costs.

How a development tool can increase property taxes
Tax increment financing can raise existing residents’ property tax bills, at least the way the tool is used in Wisconsin.

Wisconsin should stop treating data centers worse than other taxpaying industries
Sales tax exemption isn’t a subsidy but a common shield against increasing consumers’ prices with hidden levies.

