Few people enjoy paying their property taxes or seeing the income taxes taken out of their hard-earned paycheck. Yet everyone relies upon the public services that those taxes fund, whether it is roads, schools, or our national defense. One reason that taxes are so loathed in the U.S., despite the fact that we rank toward the bottom globally in tax revenue as a share of GDP, may be that we generally do a poor job of communicating where our tax dollars go.
Through the representative WisconSays/La Follette Survey launched last year, we’ve been able to ask questions related to the issues on the minds of Wisconsin residents. Taxes are a big issue for many, but federal taxes are top of mind. Fifty-one percent of Wisconsinites viewed taxes at the national level as quite a problem or an extremely big problem while only 39% said that about taxes in Wisconsin. This may reflect the increasingly national focus of politics.
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