MacIver News Service - Representative Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield) will announce his plan to reform Wisconsin's tax code on Tuesday that will include a $752 million income tax cut and will reduce the state's tax brackets from five to four in tax year 2014 and three in tax year 2015, according to a memo from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Read More »

MacIver News Service - New revenue estimates from the non-partisan Fiscal Bureau on Thursday show Wisconsin will bring in $575 million more, or 1.4 percent, than expected over the next three years. Income tax estimates are up $385 million and corporate tax estimates have increased by $190 million. Read More »

Governor Scott Walker (R-Wisconsin) announced Wednesday that Wisconsin will not accept federal funding under the Affordable Care Act to expand the state's Medicaid program. Read More »

Wisconsin's fiscal picture continues to improve. Latest projections show an increase of $136 million in the state's bottom line. Read More »

[Madison, Wisc...] On Friday, the US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold Act 10, which had partly been overturned by a US District Judge in March. Read More »

On Tuesday night, Gov. Walker gave his 2013 State of the State speech in Madison at the State Capitol. Full text of the speech plus images from Assembly Chamber. Read More »

[Madison, Wisc...] It will be weeks before the Madison Police Department knows for sure how much President Obama's last-minute campaign stop cost taxpayers. Read More »

arly voting started this week and, already, election observers in Milwaukee have brought possible violations of elections law to the attention of poll workers. However, those complaints have not made their way to the Milwaukee Elections Commission's front office. Read More »

[West Allis, Wisc...] The City of West Allis does not want its residents paying for the City of Milwaukee's pet project. On Tuesday, the West Allis Common Council voted unanimously to oppose Milwaukee's proposed streetcar line. That line would only... Read More »

A Sad Joke? A Sanitized Display of Socialist Anger? A Free Concert Posing as a Rally? Or All of the Above? By James Wigderson Special Guest Perspective for the MacIver Institute When we think of May Day, most of us... Read More »