Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield) discusses his vision for reforming Wisconsin's tax code. Kooyenga is an advocate for big, bold tax reform - particularly, getting Wisconsin on a glide path to a low, flat income tax.

Attorney General Brad Schimel recently announced the Department of Justice has resolved the longstanding problem of a backlog of untested sexual assault kits. That might puzzle the average consumer of mainstream media reports, which have painted Schimel as a skinflint who put the decades-old backlog on the back burner. The media's been ignoring key facts about the backlog in order to push a narrative - they put the facts on the back burner.

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Too many Wisconsin graduates are unprepared for life after high school. The MacIver Institute's latest State of Higher Ed report notes that students from 184 Wisconsin high schools entered the UW System requiring remedial math or English in 2016. That's up from 175 schools the year before. The one-fifth of college freshmen paying for remedial math for zero college credit are literally paying the price for their high schools' failures.

The City of New London's $20 wheel tax generated $184,000 in the current budget, but that windfall wasn't spent on road repairs. The budget spends only $18,000 on transportation related projects. So where did the money go? There's nowhere for the money to hide in the city budget, so it appears to have been spent on other priorities - priorities other than roads.

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The MacIver Institute's annual State of K-12 Education report shows that there's still a lot of room for improvement in a wide range of student achievement metrics. Flat ACT scores, unacceptable achievement gaps, woeful proficiency scores, and more - we simply have to do better.

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Senator Ron Johnson takes a short break from the round-the-clock Washington news cycle for an exclusive conversation with MacIver's Matt Kittle. They discuss the Kavanaugh nomination hearings, the late Sen. John McCain, and the latest on the homeland security front.

Not all employees at Kimberly-Clark's Wisconsin plants are excited about a proposal to bail out the struggling paper manufacturer. One company insider blasted the $117 million tax incentives plan as "legalized extortion" to prop up a profitable operation and make every company employee in the state a "welfare recipient."

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Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, joined MacIver's Matt Kittle to talk about the status of worker freedom on Labor Day. It's an exciting time for workers who want freedom from unions and compulsory union membership - Mix gives us an update on recent victories and ongoing challenges for worker freedom.

Free from the fetters of union driven health plans thanks to Act 10, school districts have turned to innovative and cost-saving health insurance options for their employees. Changes made possible by Gov. Walker's signature reform have allowed school districts to save $3.2 billion in benefits costs alone - much of that on health benefits.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel's legal team scored a major victory in one lawsuit challenging Obamacare. In this conversation with MacIver's Matt Kittle, originally airing on News/Talk 1310 WIBA, Schimel announces that Wisconsin won a judgment for nearly $90 million after a District Court ruled one hefty Obamacare tax was an illegal tax on states. Just hours later, the mainstream media followed and reported the story. Schimel discusses that and a second lawsuit challenging Obamacare's constitutionality in this week's MacIver Report Extra podcast.