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April 01, 2025 | By William Osmulski
Policy Issues
State Budget

LFB Underestimates Evers' Budget Costs by Billions

No one ever questions the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) and with good reason. It is a non-partisan office of absolute professionals who serve as the legislature’s official accountants. But they are dead wrong when they say that Gov. Evers’ budget would raise taxes and fees by $2.6 billion. It’s not even close. $2.6 billion is less than half of what it would actually be.

The biggest omission is Evers’ plan to increase hospital assessment fees by $3.3 billion to increase funding to Medicaid. Hospitals will, of course, shift those costs onto other patients who are not on Medicaid. That brings Evers’ total up to at least $5.9 billion.

There’s even more to this story that you can apparently only get from the MacIver Institute.

Here is MacIver’s report that estimates the impact of Evers’ budget on taxes and fees by over $7 billion.

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