If you live in the city of Madison and own a non-electric vehicle, you paid $85 to the state, $40 to the city, and $28 to Dane County in wheel taxes this year. That’s an annual total of $153. The similar story is increasingly true in many other Wisconsin communities. According to a new report, […]
City of Madison 2022 Budget Brief
In October of 2020, at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the City of Madison, like governments everywhere, braced for the worst. With the globe in lockdown, travel, tourism and parking revenues tanked,and new construction tailed off, depriving the city of the only sources of revenue over which it had any control. Fast forward to […]
Wisconsin JFC Proposes Big Tax Cuts, Little Spending
On June 17, Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee voted along party lines to recommend a 2021-2023 biennial budget that includes 3.4 billion dollars in tax cuts and very little of the new spending proposed by Governor Tony Evers. The financial bill highlights the stark contrasts in political philosophy and priorities between Republicans and Democrats. The […]
Wisconsin’s Budget Windfall and Voter Suppression Legislation
Tax collections are projected to rise sharply in Wisconsin, giving the state government an unexpected windfall. What can they do with the money—and what should they do? The Wisconsin Policy Forum recently released a report about this called “A Golden Opportunity for Wisconsin.” In it, they write that Wisconsin has a “once-in-a-generation chance to address […]
What’s In the 2021-23 State Budget?
In March of 2020, Wisconsin Policy Forum’s Jason Stein appeared on WORT’s Evening News to talk about a Policy Forum report on Wisconsin State Government’s ability to weather an economic recession. The report rated the state’s financial resiliency as “about average” among U.S. states. With the global pandemic still in its early stages, the word […]
Reviewing Wisconsin’s 2021 State Budget + Legislature Updates
In their latest report, Wisconsin Policy Forum finds that next year, Gov. Tony Evers and lawmakers will likely confront the state’s toughest budget challenge in a decade. On today’s first segment, we learn more about the 2021–2022 state budget with Wisconsin Policy Forum’s research director, Jason Stein. Then, state representative Dianne Hesselbein joins us to […]
