Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: La Crosse Talk PM WIZM
Episode: Economist Adam Hoffer on Badgers wanting $15M from taxpayers to pay athletes and legalizing sports gambling
Description: Giving UW-Madison $14.6 million in taxpayer money to pay players, will sports gambling become legal and gas prices going up were the big topics we covered Friday with economist, Dr. Adam Hoffer. Hofffer is the director of excise tax policy at the Tax Foundation and began by explaining what excise tax is — or sin taxes, like gambling, alcohol, marijuana. Another one of those excise taxes is gas, and Hoffer explained how Wisconsin’s gas prices could skyrocket because of the war in Iran — if certain Legislators had their way — but the way the state taxes gas now, makes th...