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Todd A. Berry WISTAX Offers Candidates
Public-Service "Prep" Packets MADISON—How large is Wisconsin’s budget deficit going into 2009? What spending areas account for most of budget growth? How much debt per capita does the state have? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in a free instructional packet recently distributed to 270 state legislative candidates by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX). "Candidates of all persuasions often come to us for background on public policies and state-local tax and spending issues in order to be better informed. In keeping with our core mission of promoting citizen education and involvement, we made the packets available to all candidates—incumbents and challengers—running for state senate or assembly this year," noted Todd A. Berry, WISTAX president. Each package included recent issues of the WISTAX Focus newsletter on per pupil school spending, interstate debt comparisons, and demographic groups paying the highest/lowest percentage of income taxes, among other subjects. Issues of The Wisconsin Taxpayer magazine covering agriculture, population trends, health care, public and private fringe benefits, and Wisconsin’s fiscal health were also included. Among its other citizen-education efforts, WISTAX offers civic talks, classroom lectures, and a textbook for middle and high school students titled The Framework of Your Wisconsin Government. Now in its 76th year, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to public-policy research and citizen education. o (Editors' Note: An electronic version of this column is available at www.wistax.org.)
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Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, founded in 1932, is the state’s oldest and
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