Michael Madden

Michael Madden served 12 years in the Wyoming House as a Republican representative from Buffalo, including seven years as chairman of the House Revenue Committee. He is an economist and holds a doctorate in economics from Iowa State University.

The winners, losers and fireworks of the ed budget failure

Analysis

April 13, 2021 by Michael Madden 1 Comment

Wyoming lawmakers saved the pyrotechnics for the very last day of the 2021 legislative session, when House and Senate negotiators failed to compromise on the education funding bill.

How COVID spending affects our fiscal health

Opinion

March 23, 2021 by Michael Madden Leave a Comment

There is no fool-proof mechanism for determining if and when a fiscal crisis will occur. But all else being equal, Madden writes, the larger a government's debt, the greater the risk.

The federal stimulus bails out Wyo state, local governments, for now

Opinion

March 16, 2021 by Michael Madden 6 Comments

There are some areas the state can’t finance with the roughly $1.3 billion it will receive from the ARP Act, but there appears to be sufficient flexibility to greatly ease the revenue crisis in Wyoming.

The surprisingly long list of tax bills before the Legislature

Analysis

March 9, 2021 by Michael Madden 4 Comments

Revenue-reducing measures typically outnumber state-income producers by a wide margin during a Wyoming legislative session, but the ratio is reversed this year.

School finance: Lawmakers’ biggest remaining challenge

Analysis

February 23, 2021 by Michael Madden 3 Comments

Undertaken every five years, the ‘recalibration’ analysis and reconsideration of Wyoming’s complex public-education funding and expenditures model takes on special urgency and import in 2021.

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The winners, losers and fireworks of the ed budget failure

How COVID spending affects our fiscal health

The federal stimulus bails out Wyo state, local governments, for now

The surprisingly long list of tax bills before the Legislature

School finance: Lawmakers’ biggest remaining challenge

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