This post originally appeared at https://www.bootsandsabers.com/2023/07/05/evers-uses-veto-to-increase-taxes-and-spending/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evers-uses-veto-to-increase-taxes-and-spending

As predicted here and elsewhere, any Conservative gains written into the budget by Republicans have been obliterated. Evers has had a spectacular Spring in terms of getting almost everything he wanted from the Republican legislature while giving up very little.

MADISON – Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, a former public school educator, used his broad partial veto authority this week while taking action on the next two-year state budget to increase funding for public schools for the next four centuries.

The surprise move will ensure districts’ state-imposed limits on how much revenue they are allowed to raise will be increased by $325 per student each year until 2425, creating a permanent annual stream of new revenue for public schools and potentially curbing a key debate between Democrats and Republicans during each state budget-writing cycle.

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Evers also vetoed the majority of the centerpiece of Republican lawmakers’ budget plan: a $3.5 billion tax cut that focused relief for the state’s wealthiest residents. Instead, the reshaped budget will provide $175 million in tax relief and won’t condense the state’s four income tax brackets into three as Republicans proposed, according to the governor.