Report suggests Wisconsin counties need new revenue sources with drop in state aid
Thursday, Jun 10, 2021
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — Adult corrections guards are on pace for 2.2 million hours of overtime in the current fiscal year, amounting to a 13.5 percent increase over 2019-20, according to
Wisconsin would overhaul its policies for absentee ballots, indefinitely confined voters and the use of drop boxes under bills that cleared the state Senate today. The Senate also voted to ban the use of private money to cover the costs
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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature today voted along party lines to end enhanced federal unemployment benefits even as Gov. Tony Evers has signaled he will veto the bill. Assembly Republicans acknowledged that
LFB’s re-estimates show an increase of $4.4 billion above January estimates, with a projected ending balance in the 2021-23 budget of $5.7 billion. That flood of projected cash raises a critical question: Will taxpayers get that money back or will they get Tonied?
The only sensible and fiscally prudent thing to do is to continue to spend within a reasonable means and return a sizeable balance of what might be termed “the stimulus dividend” to the taxpayers.
Now that we are somewhat stabilized and on the mend, thanks in large part to government intervention and funding, it’s time for the Biden administration to look ahead and build a more robust economy. Collaboration with industry, as with the COVID vaccine, points the way forward.
The best way to rebuild economy and a strong middle class. Wisconsin and nation must do more.
The powerful hand of government along with the means to tax and fund such projects is what is required so to impact a host of needs people are facing. The average person is not able to effect such change. Former Madison Mayor Sue Bauman well understood that fact.
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement Construction Business Group (CBG) From WisPolitics.com … — Adult corrections guards are on pace for 2.2 million hours of overtime in the current fiscal year, amounting to a 13.5 percent increase over 2019-20, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. The agency has long been plagued
Wisconsin would overhaul its policies for absentee ballots, indefinitely confined voters and the use of drop boxes under bills that cleared the state Senate today. The Senate also voted to ban the use of private money to cover the costs of an election. Many of the provisions in the four
Pamperin Park, 2801 County Road RK, Green Bay. Thursday, June 10, 2021, 7:00 p.m. *Registration begins at 6:00 p.m. *You must register to attend this event: https://nobetterfriendcorp.salsalabs.org/backingthebadgeandbuildingbridgesgreenbay/index.html (Waukesha, WI)—No Better Friend Corp., a non-profit run by businessman and Marine Corps veteran Kevin Nicholson, is hosting its third tour stop of
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Both houses of the Legislature today voted along party lines to end enhanced federal unemployment benefits even as Gov. Tony Evers has signaled he will veto the bill. Assembly Republicans acknowledged that ending the extra $300 a week in UI wouldn’t be
LFB’s re-estimates show an increase of $4.4 billion above January estimates, with a projected ending balance in the 2021-23 budget of $5.7 billion. That flood of projected cash raises a critical question: Will taxpayers get that money back or will they get Tonied?
The only sensible and fiscally prudent thing to do is to continue to spend within a reasonable means and return a sizeable balance of what might be termed “the stimulus dividend” to the taxpayers.
Now that we are somewhat stabilized and on the mend, thanks in large part to government intervention and funding, it’s time for the Biden administration to look ahead and build a more robust economy. Collaboration with industry, as with the COVID vaccine, points the way forward.
The best way to rebuild economy and a strong middle class. Wisconsin and nation must do more.
The powerful hand of government along with the means to tax and fund such projects is what is required so to impact a host of needs people are facing. The average person is not able to effect such change. Former Madison Mayor Sue Bauman well understood that fact.