More Positive News For Wisconsin – Wisconsin’s Tax Burden Falls And Legislators Weigh Options for Revenue Surplus Read More Wisconsin’s Tax Burden Falls And Legislators Weigh Options for Revenue Surplus
It’s Still Working Wisconsin $7.2 billion in income and sale tax cuts, $5.8 billion in property tax cuts, and $131 million in general fund tax cuts total staggering figure – but some of the most sizable tax cuts, such as those stemming from Act 10, aren’t even included in the figure By Ola Lisowski A new memo from Wisconsin’s nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) shows that Wisconsin taxes have fallen by more than $13.1 billion since 2011. Just over half, or 55 percent, of the total tax cut comes from income and franchise tax cuts along with economic development …
By Ola Lisowski – Gov. Tony Evers – once educator, then bureaucrat, and now Wisconsin’s governor – has dedicated his life to public education. His gubernatorial campaign largely centered around the question of equity and progress in K-12 education. Yet his 2019-21 budget proposal, up for a Thursday vote in the state’s Joint Finance Committee (JFC), would have turned back the clock on the very values he claims to hold dear. Read More What Gov. Tony Evers Got Wrong in His K-12 Education Proposal
In 2015, Governor Scott Walker started a pilot program to help transition people from government dependence to independence. Since then, over 25,000 people have found jobs thanks to Wisconsin’s FoodShare Employment Training (FSET) program. The left argues it’s cruel and counter-productive to make people on benefits participate in job training. These successful graduates might beg to differ. Read More It’s Working Wisconsin – Moving From Welfare To Independence
MacIver News Service | July 29, 2016
The Times Villager reports that the Kaukauna school board intends to review and improve the current merit-based compensation system for teachers. Read More Kaukauna School Board to Alter Teacher Compensation System