{"id":10216,"date":"2024-04-16T01:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T01:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2024-04-16T02:02:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T02:02:45","slug":"wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10216","title":{"rendered":"WMC Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Governor\u2019s 400 Year Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/15\/wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/15\/wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lawsuit-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-195445863.html\">This court won\u2019t strike it down, but they should<\/a>. No governor should have the power to raise taxes \u2013 especially not for centuries.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Attorneys with Wisconsin\u2019s largest business lobbying group asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to strike down Democratic Gov.\u00a0&lt;span class=&quot;caas-xray-inline-tooltip wafer-destroyed wafer-loader-success&quot; data-wf-template-id=&quot;caas-xray-inline-wafer-tooltip-template-with-close-7eeb083f-22cd-3347-a97d-03e4b6124fe7&quot; data-wf-local-storage-key=&quot;xray-inline-tooltip&quot; data-wf-tooltip-text=&quot;Get info without <br \/> leaving the page.&#8221; data-wf-tooltip-position=&#8221;bottom&#8221; data-wf-reset-every=&#8221;90&#8243;&gt;<span class=\"caas-xray-inline caas-xray-entity caas-xray-pill rapid-nonanchor-lt\" data-entity-id=\"Tony_Evers\" data-ylk=\"cid:Tony_Evers;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/search.yahoo.com\/search?p=Tony%20Evers\" data-i13n=\"cid:Tony_Evers;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tony Evers;cid:Tony_Evers;pos:1;elmt:wiki;sec:pill-inline-entity;elm:pill-inline-text;itc:1;cat:Politician;\" data-rapid_p=\"14\" data-v9y=\"1\">Tony Evers<\/a><\/span>\u2018 use of a partial veto to\u00a0<a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/evers-veto-400-years-wisconsin-school-funding-67a7847e4a24ea86f7d16123356f770d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:lock in a school funding increase;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-rapid_p=\"15\" data-v9y=\"1\">lock in a school funding increase<\/a>\u00a0for the next 400 years.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce Litigation Center filed the petition on behalf of two taxpayers. It will be up to the liberal-controlled Supreme Court to decide whether to hear the case before it goes through lower courts, which is where cases typically start.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is a partial veto Evers made of the state budget in July that increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the \u201c20\u201d and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law is clear,\u201d said WMC Litigation Center Deputy Director Nathan Kane in a statement. \u201cVoters and their elected legislators are the ones empowered to increases taxes, no one else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/04\/15\/wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=wmc-asks-supreme-court-to-overturn-governors-400-year-tax-increase This court won\u2019t strike it down, but they should&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10217,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}