The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

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The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week Podcast

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 News Minute: Evers Already Falling Behind With Budget Work

    4 DAYS AGO

    MacIver News Minute: Evers Already Falling Behind With Budget Work

    Work on the next state budget has just begun, and Governor Evers is already struggling to keep up. Every state agency is required to submit its funding request to Evers by Sep. 16th, according to the deadline he set. However, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) says that Evers still hasn’t released all the details agencies need to complete that request. WEC decided to submit a partial request for now and amend it later to meet the deadline. Evers better get his act together fast. The deadlines for work on the budget are going to start piling up fast. His budget proposal is due in February. Five months might sound like a long time, but not when you’re talking about preparing a 750-page document that spends around $100 billion - especially when it depends on the input from 68 state agencies that are being kept waiting because of you. Not a great start to what’s sure to be yet another contentious budget cycle.

    1 min
  2. The MacIver Report: It's the Future and Kamala Won the Election. What Happened?

    AUG 26

    The MacIver Report: It's the Future and Kamala Won the Election. What Happened?

    Last episode, Bill and Michaels took a trip through the next 100 days to make a series of bold, yet realistic predictions about the election and world events. (Spoiler alert: they’re still all on track). There’s more time travel in this episode, as Bill and Micheal transport themselves to Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024: Kamala Harris just won the presidency. How did this happen? What did Republicans get wrong? Can this future be avoided? You don’t want to miss this podcast. If you don’t want to hear it now from MacIver, get ready to hear it on Nov. 6th from everybody!

    1h 8m
  3. MacIver News Minute: Socialists Worry About the Economy Too

    AUG 20

    MacIver News Minute: Socialists Worry About the Economy Too

    Since the last presidential election, the price of food has gone up 21 percent, so has rent. Electricity is up over 30 percent. No wonder inflation and the economy are the most important issues for voters this year. A national poll conducted just last week found the vast majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, over half say the economy is getting worse. But don’t think for a moment that everyone understands why the economy is getting worse or how to fix it. Remember, over a third of Americans believe in socialism. What are the chances that they understand that out-of-control federal spending is driving inflation? To them, kamala Harris’ plan of price controls and nationalizing whole sectors of the economy likely sounded music to their ears. And that poll from last week does have Harris ahead by two points. Trump and the rest of the republican need to realize that just because the economy is really bad – doesn’t mean voters are going to automatically turn to them and the free market to solve it. They must be won over.

    1 min
  4. The MacIver Report: Predictions for the Next 100 Days

    AUG 10

    The MacIver Report: Predictions for the Next 100 Days

    The MacIver Institute relaunches its “MacIver Report” podcast with a list of bold, yet calculated predictions for the next three months. Join MacIver’s content director Bill Osmulski and lead policy analyst Michael Lucas as they argue exactly why they believe: • The “October Surprise” will be Jimmy Carter passing away • Joe Biden will resign or die in office right after the election • Kamala Harris will be president by the end of this year whether she wins or not • The US will not be dragged into a war before the election • An armistice will be declared in the Ukraine

    52 min
  5. MacIver News Minute: The Democrats' Undemocratic Decision-Making Process

    JUL 30

    MacIver News Minute: The Democrats' Undemocratic Decision-Making Process

    No one in Wisconsin should be surprised that Kamala Harris has all but secured the Democrat nomination for president without a single vote in the primaries. We got a good look at the Democrat party’s ironically undemocratic methods during the 2022 mid-terms. Remember how there were originally 8 candidates running for the Democrat nomination for US Senate? One-by-one they all dropped out before the primary to clear the way for Mandela Barnes. Can’t have your voters making important decisions like that! Sarah Godlewski was the last one to bow out – just one month before the primary and with momentum on her side. It all worked out for her in the end though. Doug La Follette won his race for secretary of state and just two months into the term decided to retire. Gov. Evers coincidently appointed Godlewski as his replacement, raising all kinds of suspicion but with absolutely no fear of consequences. After all, it’s not like voters had a say in any of these democrat decisions in the first place.

    1 min
  6. MacIver News Minute: No Rules Against UW Faculty Breaking Laws on Campus

    JUN 3

    MacIver News Minute: No Rules Against UW Faculty Breaking Laws on Campus

    You might have seen Samar Alatout’s name in the news last month. He is the faculty advisor for students for justice in Palestine at UW Madison. There are videos of him repeatedly attacking police when they tried to take down an illegal encampment there. He’s even seen interfering with an arrest. These are serious crimes, and Alatout was arrested that day. It is Dane County, though, and so hours later he was released without any charges. However, even if he was charged with felonies and convicted, it’s unlikely the university would have done anything about it. It would only have risen to “serious criminal misconduct” under the university’s administrative code if Alatout had seriously injured someone – which he clearly did not. And so, we have a system, where a UW faculty member was seen on camera committing felonies on university property – and even if he was convicted, there is nothing the university could have done about it. No wonder why protesters think they can get away with anything on campus.

    1 min
  7. MacIver News Minute: Throwing $15 Million at Western Wisconsin's Healthcare Problem

    MAY 24

    MacIver News Minute: Throwing $15 Million at Western Wisconsin's Healthcare Problem

    Every time there’s a problem somewhere, government’s knee jerk response is to throw money at it. Take the hospital situation in western Wisconsin for example. Two hospitals abruptly closed their doors this spring, creating a capacity problem in the emergency rooms there. The state is trying to figure out how to send $15 million in emergency grants to help do something right away. Lawmakers passed a bill in February to provide the money exclusively for emergency room capacity, but the governor used his line-item veto to allow that money be used for any healthcare needs in the region. The joint committee of finance, subsequently, refuses to release the funds. But, how exactly would $15 million help increase emergency room capacity right away? After all, even simple hospital expansions are multi-year projects that cost a lot more than $15 million. Some experts believe that the best way to expand capacity is through policy and regulatory changes, not more government funding. But health care providers are telling lawmakers that they need that money and they need it now. When MacIver asked those lawmakers how that money would be used to increase emergency room capacity, the response was: we don’t know. We didn’t talk about that. No kidding.

    1 min
  8. MacIver News Minute: Hey Joe! You Didn't Build That in Wisconsin!

    MAY 14

    MacIver News Minute: Hey Joe! You Didn't Build That in Wisconsin!

    Joe Biden had a great day in Wisconsin last week. He showed up in mount pleasant to announce that Microsoft is building a new data center there, and everyone bent over backwards to give him all the credit, which was really tricky because he had nothing to do with it. But that’s why the mainstream media has told you next to nothing about the project. Here’s the short version: Six years ago, state and local leaders set that land aside and started prepping it for Foxconn Three years ago, the Wisconsin economic development corporation realized that Foxconn only needed a third of the property and started marketing the rest of it to other companies. State and local groups worked together to get Microsoft’s attention. Then the Governor and state lawmakers put a sales tax exemption for data centers in the last state budget. After that, Microsoft was all in. Finally, Joe Biden showed up and took credit for everything blasting the republican leaders who laid the groundwork that made it possible in the first place. Read the entire story at maciverinstitute.com.

    1 min
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