Tax reform can have substantial benefits for Wisconsinites’ economic prospects Author Don Bruce, a prominent economist at the University of Tennessee, estimates moving to a flat individual income tax in…
Let’s forget about economic pie-growing for a minute (just a minute) as our legislators start to debate tax reform in Madison. Let’s, just for now, debate the issue on the…
Over the past year, the Badger Institute has explored how Wisconsin’s justice system is facing massive criminal case backlogs that are fueling severe delays in justice for victims and defendants…
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…
Wisconsin FoodShare increasingly detached from need It’s been over three years since the start of the pandemic, 28 months since the peak of Wisconsin COVID deaths, about a year since…
2022 drop still leaves crime levels in city well above those as recent as 2019 When Milwaukee’s year-end crime figures for 2022 were released, Mayor Cavalier Johnson and Police Chief…
Legislators have no idea if the state is getting its money’s worth Gov. Tony Evers has asked that Wisconsin spend another $750 million to expand broadband in the state without…
Innovative, unconventional — and unexplainably made to operate on 60% of what other public schools get As you watch four kids in a low-ceilinged basement space soldering parts for the…
Vos is correct: Even if we stop using gas, we need to fund the roads that let Wisconsin grow Robin Vos spoke a hard truth the other day, something unpleasant…
Declining gas tax revenues require a fair and sustainable replacement Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Wednesday renewed a call for Wisconsin to adopt tolling as a way to pay for state infrastructure…
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