by Mike Fischer | Mar 8, 2019 | Features, Special to RightWisconsin
Governor Tony Evers wants to increase the gas tax on Wisconsin consumers by $0.08 a gallon. The good news is that the governor estimates that this tax increase will generate approximately $485 million in new revenue over the two year budget cycle – money that the...
by Mike Fischer | Aug 28, 2018 | Features
Are TIFs – tax increment districts – necessary tools for economic development in blighted areas – or just “smoke and mirrors” designed to spend taxpayer money on projects that do not need it? A recent story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that provides some pretty...
by Mike Fischer | Dec 1, 2017 | Features
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday in two important cases involving a bedrock principle of limited government. The two cases, Tetra Tech v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue and Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development v. Labor and Industry...
by Mike Fischer | Aug 8, 2017 | Features, Special to RightWisconsin
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported last week that President Donald Trump has the power to “let Obamacare implode” by deciding, apparently entirely on his own, not to make some subsidy payments that are otherwise due to insurers who participate in the program....