The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

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The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin and the home of the most important public policy debates in the nation. See: @newsmaciver @maciverreport #wiright

  1. MacIver Report (Jan. 10, 2025) - Week in Review

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    MacIver Report (Jan. 10, 2025) - Week in Review

    MacIver's Bill Osmulski and Michael Lucas review all the content that the institute produced over the past week. These included stories about: - Everyone in the Biden Administration covered for Joe's mental decline - Gov. Evers wants to bypass the legislature by allowing "the people" to pass laws through referendum - Major medical records leaks under Biden's watch - Budget priorities - School performance

    52 min
  2. MacIver News Minute: Free Market Charity Care

    23/12/2024

    MacIver News Minute: Free Market Charity Care

    Charity is on a lot of our minds this time of year, and hospitals throughout Wisconsin thought it was perfect time to brag about their supposed largess. The Hospital Association just released a report about all the charity that non-profit hospitals are doing and claimed things like that don’t happen in the free market. Too bad for them, the MacIver Institute, Wisconsin’s premiere free market think tank, saw that report, and decided to look into that claim. We quickly found multiple academic studies from places like Harvard and John Hopkins that show for-profit hospitals actually provide more charity care than non-profits both in Wisconsin and across the country. Also, according to the IRS, non-profits are required by law to provide that care. True charity doesn’t come from government compulsion. It has to be given freely, and the only place you’ll find the conditions to do that is in the free market.

    1 min
  3. MacIver News Minute: Who Raised My Property Taxes?

    19/12/2024

    MacIver News Minute: Who Raised My Property Taxes?

    So, you got your property tax bill, and you’re wondering why it went up so much for the school district. Across the state, school district property taxes went up $327.2 million this year. That comes out to 5.7% A lot of that was because of referendums, but that’s not the whole story. You probably forgot the big budget deal republicans made with gov. Evers last year. They agreed to increase the revenue limits for school districts by $350 per pupil last year and again this year. There are two ways that $350 gets paid, either with more state aid or with higher property taxes. There wasn’t that much more state aid. Last year, property taxes went up $150 million to make up the difference. This year, it was $65 million. It’s going to get worse. Gov. Evers really doped republicans in that deal. He used his line-item veto to make the annual increase go on for another 400 years. That means, lawmakers can either use money from your income taxes to increase state aid, or they can let you pay it directly through higher property taxes. Either way, the school districts will get theirs, and you’ll be paying for it.

    1 min
  4. MacIver News Minute: Government Burden Not Limited to Taxes

    05/12/2024

    MacIver News Minute: Government Burden Not Limited to Taxes

    According to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, between 2021 and 2022: - Personal income in Wisconsin went up less than 3% while inflation went up 6.5%. - Housing expenses in the state went up almost 11%, the 19th highest in the country. - Energy expenses went up a whopping 37.5%, the fourth highest jump in the country.

    1 min
  5. MacIver Report (Dec. 5, 2024) - Housing Crisis Deep Dive

    05/12/2024

    MacIver Report (Dec. 5, 2024) - Housing Crisis Deep Dive

    Why is it so expensive to own a home or rent in places like Madison, Wisconsin? The MacIver Staff delves into all the ways that centralized planning from local government makes a bad situation worse and why the free market is the only way out.

    49 min
  6. MacIver Report (Nov. 21, 2024) - Major State Agencies Have No Budget?!

    21/11/2024

    MacIver Report (Nov. 21, 2024) - Major State Agencies Have No Budget?!

    The MacIver Staff discusses a new MacIver report that reveals major state agencies in Wisconsin have no budget. How is that possible? Also, why didn't the Republican Party of Wisconsin run candidates in half of the state's district attorney races? And what about that upcoming State Supreme Court race? It's all in this episode of the MacIver Report.

    58 min
  7. MacIver News Minute: Higher Property Taxes Mean Higher Rents

    19/11/2024

    MacIver News Minute: Higher Property Taxes Mean Higher Rents

    Elections have consequences, which is a concept that liberals struggle to grasp. Take the city of Madison for example. It’s trying to figure out why housing costs are out of control. The median rent in the city is now over $1,400 a month, far above what the median household can afford. And those rents keep going up. One guy on the local news just said his rent has gone up 35% over the past four years. Of course, the city has its theories; greedy land developers only building luxury homes is a popular one. Here’s one theory no one in Madison wants to consider. Its residents just voted to approve three referendums this month: one for the city and two for the school district. Combined, those will increase the average property tax bill in Madison by $1,600 a year – about $130 a month – that’s a 25% increase from last year. You’d think at some point, Madison residents would start to see a connection. We’ll see if it comes up next month when property tax bills are mailed out, and the rent increase notices inevitably follow.

    1 min
  8. MacIver Report (Nov. 14, 2024) - Election Fraud Suspicions

    13/11/2024

    MacIver Report (Nov. 14, 2024) - Election Fraud Suspicions

    The MacIver Staff discuss various strategies and factors that impact any potential challenge to Wisconsin's US Senate Race between Eric Hovde and Tammy Baldwin. Also, this week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a case about whether the state's 1849 abortion ban actually banned abortion, and how liberal justices behaved more like a Supreme Legislature than a Supreme Court. All that and more on this week's edition of the MacIver Report.

    1 h 5 min
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The Free Market Voice for Wisconsin and the home of the most important public policy debates in the nation. See: @newsmaciver @maciverreport #wiright

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