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The governor is proposing a $1 billion tax increase, but he is also proposing to increase spending by $3.8 billion from all funding sources in just the first fiscal year. To create the appearance of balance, the budget spends down cash reserves, taps revenue sources that don’t yet exist, and makes unrealistic assumptions about future revenue.
Many of the huge disparities we see today are a direct result of White people being given access to homeownership which fostered generational wealth building to the exclusion of people of color.
Evers’ budget would also allow the 68 counties that now charge a 0.5% local sales to raise that local-option sales tax to 1% if voters agree by passing a referendum.
The Biden administration should use the tragedy of the COVID-19 crisis to begin to meaningfully address historic racial injustices in our nation.
Invitation-only online event featured more than 80 sessions to move beyond business as usual and transition to a more sustainable and just economy.
The concept of a Green and Gold Wisconsin is alive and well. That’s dual support for policies that promote economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental improvements on the other.
Better late than never, we now have a president who believes in science and who is making climate a top priority.
While the vaccine offers a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel, we still must work together to avoid more preventable deaths from COVID-19.
Bottom line, prisons are an incubator for the transmission of disease. We have a responsibility to keep the employees and incarcerated people in those facilities safe.
Some states have gone down this road, but that doesn’t mean it’s right for Wisconsin.
The nationwide push to legalize marijuana state by state may make its passage SEEM like an inevitability to the public. However, Americans are smart to question this push, examine the facts, and slow down this process before it’s too late.
Vos creates or exacerbates problems, while Governor Evers is a problem-solver.
Killing passenger rail was raw politics at its worst — a patented Walker divide and conquer scheme.
A few words on the biggest story in Wisconsin, the end of a 300+ day streak, and then answers for a whole lot of your questions.
We are a family of Rohingya refugees. Being allowed to immigrate here saved our lives.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal and consider its potential outcome in the hands of majority Republicans.
Tony Evers surely realizes the sensible, center-left state budget he proposed this week has zero chance of passing because the foremost priority of Republican majorities in the Legislature, ahead of governing, is preventing any success by a Democratic governor.
This was nothing more than Evers’ re-election announcement wrapped in the formality of a policy address.
In 2020 Transportation Department completed 375 projects in all corners of the state.
Sean Stevens joined the Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss findings from a 2020 survey on free speech on the college campus. Stevens is a senior research fellow in polling and analytics at FIRE and obtained his Ph.D. in social psychology from Rutgers.
The governor is proposing a $1 billion tax increase, but he is also proposing to increase spending by $3.8 billion from all funding sources in just the first fiscal year. To create the appearance of balance, the budget spends down cash reserves, taps revenue sources that don’t yet exist, and makes unrealistic assumptions about future revenue.
Many of the huge disparities we see today are a direct result of White people being given access to homeownership which fostered generational wealth building to the exclusion of people of color.
Evers’ budget would also allow the 68 counties that now charge a 0.5% local sales to raise that local-option sales tax to 1% if voters agree by passing a referendum.
The Biden administration should use the tragedy of the COVID-19 crisis to begin to meaningfully address historic racial injustices in our nation.
Invitation-only online event featured more than 80 sessions to move beyond business as usual and transition to a more sustainable and just economy.
The concept of a Green and Gold Wisconsin is alive and well. That’s dual support for policies that promote economic prosperity on the one hand and environmental improvements on the other.
Better late than never, we now have a president who believes in science and who is making climate a top priority.
While the vaccine offers a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel, we still must work together to avoid more preventable deaths from COVID-19.
Bottom line, prisons are an incubator for the transmission of disease. We have a responsibility to keep the employees and incarcerated people in those facilities safe.
Some states have gone down this road, but that doesn’t mean it’s right for Wisconsin.
The nationwide push to legalize marijuana state by state may make its passage SEEM like an inevitability to the public. However, Americans are smart to question this push, examine the facts, and slow down this process before it’s too late.
Vos creates or exacerbates problems, while Governor Evers is a problem-solver.
Killing passenger rail was raw politics at its worst — a patented Walker divide and conquer scheme.
A few words on the biggest story in Wisconsin, the end of a 300+ day streak, and then answers for a whole lot of your questions.
We are a family of Rohingya refugees. Being allowed to immigrate here saved our lives.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, review Gov. Tony Evers’ budget proposal and consider its potential outcome in the hands of majority Republicans.
Tony Evers surely realizes the sensible, center-left state budget he proposed this week has zero chance of passing because the foremost priority of Republican majorities in the Legislature, ahead of governing, is preventing any success by a Democratic governor.
This was nothing more than Evers’ re-election announcement wrapped in the formality of a policy address.
In 2020 Transportation Department completed 375 projects in all corners of the state.
Sean Stevens joined the Thompson Center on Public Leadership to discuss findings from a 2020 survey on free speech on the college campus. Stevens is a senior research fellow in polling and analytics at FIRE and obtained his Ph.D. in social psychology from Rutgers.
