One Badger Institute staffer’s personal experience with the Kia Boyz crime wave
Patrick McIlheranThe healthy fear Milwaukee needs to curb unbridled car theft You know those decals that make your car look like it’s been hit by gunfire? My family’s car has something…
Reactions to Evers’ veto show how a flat income tax frustrates a divide-and-ransack strategy
After he kicked millions of taxpayers in the head last week, Tony Evers seemed a little defensive. The Wisconsin governor suggested to an interviewer that if middle-class taxpayers were accidental…
Wins on justice, education and taxes are only the start of Wisconsinites’ work
To win the vote is merely to start the work. As the Wisconsin Legislature wraps up a biennial budget that has both ups and downs — it spends much more…
With school choice deal, Wisconsin aligns its dollars with parents’ investment
Seeing how often Wisconsinites have been told that public school districts are starving, it isn’t surprising that when asked to guess how much tax money districts spent per student, they…
Personal property taxes: More trouble than they’re worth
Among the bills Republicans are considering in the Legislature is one eliminating the last remnants of Wisconsin’s personal property tax. The bill, AB2, sponsored by Rep. Dan Knodl (R-Germantown), would…
Why public school-goers support choice
The idea of school choice is so popular in Wisconsin that it raises a question. And it is popular. A new poll last month asked 700 likely voters, “Do you…
When parents choose a public school with more options for their children, the state provides less money. Why?
When Jalisa Hawkins decided to transfer her daughter from one Beloit public school to another, the state cut the sum taxpayers spend on the child’s education by about 40% for…
Legislature protects Milwaukeeans from $15-per-rider fare-free trolley folly
In need of quiet solitude not long ago, I did the obvious: I got on Milwaukee’s streetcar, The Hop. It did not disappoint: In all, five people Hopped on, then…
Economist vindicates Act 10 and common sense
Rewards for good teaching, wins for kids Recently a Yale professor wrote something that was astonishing because it shouldn’t have been astonishing. Barbara Biasi, a labor economist, vindicated the labor…
Economics of the fist: Unions favor telling to asking with Wisconsin’s right to work
The strong-arm tactics of Act 10 antagonists Among the winks and nudges offered by Janet Protasiewicz on her way to the Supreme Court was that Act 10, the Gov. Scott…