{"id":8505,"date":"2024-01-24T00:54:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T01:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8505"},"modified":"2024-01-24T02:01:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T02:01:13","slug":"evers-state-of-the-state-the-good-the-bad-and-one-ugly-tax-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8505","title":{"rendered":"Evers\u2019 State of the State: The Good, The Bad, and One Ugly Tax Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/evers-state-of-the-state-the-good-the-bad-and-one-ugly-tax-code\/\">https:\/\/will-law.org\/evers-state-of-the-state-the-good-the-bad-and-one-ugly-tax-code\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_0 et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_0\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column_0  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0  et_pb_text_align_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<h1><strong>WILL: Evers\u2019 Speech Missing Tax Cuts and Free Market Solutions<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div><strong>The News:<\/strong> The Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty (WILL) has released its response to Governor Tony Evers\u2019 2024 State of the State Address. WILL agrees on the importance of improving Wisconsin\u2019s workforce and economy, but some of the governor\u2019s policy solutions fall short. Also, WILL supports using the state\u2019s historic surplus toward meaningful tax cuts for Wisconsin\u2019s taxpayers.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>The Quote:<\/strong> WILL Policy Director, Kyle Koenen, stated, \u201cGovernor Evers spoke at length about how government can solve every problem, when in fact government is the problem. This year, the governor should take the opportunity to work alongside legislators to deliver common sense market-based reforms to improve the lives of Wisconsinites. He can start by acting on meaningful tax cuts that return more money into the hands of hard-working Wisconsin taxpayers.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><strong>Evers Identified some real problems, but failed to identify real solutions: \u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Taxes:<\/strong> Governor Evers should support tax cuts. A record surplus means the government is taking in more money than ever, and more needs to be returned to the Wisconsin taxpayer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/politics\/state-capitol\/wisconsin-republicans-push-new-tax-cut-package\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tax proposals<\/a> introduced today are worth a look.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Education:<\/strong> Wisconsin spends nearly $17,000 per student on public education and more than $8 billion overall, yet where are the results?\u00a0Reading proficiency <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/ApplestoApples2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remains around 40%<\/a>, and the state has some of the largest racial achievement gaps in the nation. We have outlined several initiatives to increase education performance over the past year, and the governor could show some courage on acting on them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Healthcare:<\/strong> Rather than focusing on partisan ideas, the Governor should focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/AHealthierFuture_PolicyReport-reducedaug-2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bipartisan solutions<\/a> like healthcare price transparency and repealing the Minimum Markup on prescription drugs that would work to lower costs for Wisconsin families.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Government-Only Solutions:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dcjournal.com\/liberal-policies-are-failing-families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Child care<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/will-releases-new-healthcare-agenda-to-policymakers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">health care<\/a> can be solved by free market principles, <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/occupational-licensing-in-wisconsin-a-roadmap-to-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">r<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/occupational-licensing-in-wisconsin-a-roadmap-to-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">educing barriers to occupational licensing<\/a> would also significantly address much of what the governor discussed tonight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_1  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_team_member et_pb_team_member_0 clearfix  et_pb_text_align_center et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_image et-waypoint et_pb_animation_off\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"980\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WILL_Kyle_Color_002_WEB_980x617_100ppi_Sharpened.jpg\" alt=\"Kyle Koenen\" class=\"wp-image-9282\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_team_member_description\">\n<h4 class=\"et_pb_module_header\">Kyle Koenen<\/h4>\n<p class=\"et_pb_member_position\">Director of Policy<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kyle@will-law.org<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/evers-state-of-the-state-the-good-the-bad-and-one-ugly-tax-code\/\">Evers\u2019 State of the State: The Good, The Bad, and One Ugly Tax Code<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\">Wisconsin Institute for Law &amp; Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/will-law.org\/evers-state-of-the-state-the-good-the-bad-and-one-ugly-tax-code\/ WILL: Evers\u2019 Speech Missing Tax Cuts and Free Market&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}