{"id":11362,"date":"2024-06-26T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11362"},"modified":"2024-06-26T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:59:55","slug":"from-the-desk-of-president-mike-nichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11362","title":{"rendered":"From the desk of President Mike Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/from-the-desk-of-president-mike-nichols\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you still believe in the American Dream?<\/h4>\n

Here at the Badger Institute, we still believe in the American Dream, in America, and in Wisconsin.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your generosity<\/a> makes it possible for the Badger Institute to uphold the principles of free enterprise, liberty and limited government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the last year alone, our policy, journalism and our advocacy in Madison, again and again, helped spur pivotal changes that are giving Wisconsinites more freedom and greater opportunity by closing the funding gap for choice schools<\/a>, fully repealing the personal property tax<\/a>, passing free-market dental care for kids<\/a>, derailing the diversion to The Hop<\/a>, and achieving swifter justice for crime victims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We are standing up for conservative common sense, and we need your help to advance our 2024 policy priorities<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

August 13 referendum \u2013 vote YES!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The August 13 election in Wisconsin will include two statewide referendums asking voters to weigh in on constitutional amendments that would give legislators more oversight of federal spending.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Unlike many other states, our governor, no matter which party s\/he is from, currently has carte blanche over huge pools of federal spending. The amendments, if approved by voters, would restore some sanity to the process and hold both our governor and legislators accountable.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Badger Institute is launching a statewide initiative in July that will tell voters why they need to vote \u201cyes\u201d on both referendum questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What Wisconsin\u2019s constitutional amendments means for big government spending.<\/a><\/p>\n

We\u2019re embarking on policy research that will improve the lives of Wisconsinites<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h4>\n