by Watchdog.org | Apr 25, 2019 | Features
By Noell Evans for Watchdog.org The state of Wisconsin’s tax-incentive heavy deal with electronics manufacturer Foxconn may be changing. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers said this week that the manufacturer reached out to the state about possibly changing the terms of...
by Watchdog.org | Apr 21, 2019 | Features
By Andrew Burger for Watchdog.org There are 14,275 bridges in Wisconsin – 1,054, or 7.4 percent, are classified as being structurally deficient, which means that one of their key elements is in poor or worse condition. That’s up from 1,043 in 2014, according to...
by Watchdog.org | Apr 8, 2019 | Features
Watchdog News Wisconsin ranked 47th in the nation in a recent WalletHub analysis of which states have the lowest property tax rate. On average, American households pay nearly $2,300 in property taxes on their homes annually, according to the WalletHub study....
by Watchdog.org | Mar 29, 2019 | Features
By Bethany Blankley for Watchdog.org States are increasingly “lured by the federal government” to receive so-called free money, but in the process have become “branch offices of Washington – or, even worse, indistinguishable from the federal government itself,”...
by Watchdog.org | Mar 21, 2019 | Features
Gov. Tony Evers’ first budget proposes giving more authority to unelected bureaucrats, reducing transparency, reversing state law to cede more power to the federal government, and would raise taxes by at least $1,000 per person in Wisconsin to pay for it, critics...