{"id":10275,"date":"2024-04-18T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T10:58:27","slug":"gov-evers-budget-veto-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10275","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Evers\u2019 Budget Veto Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-budget-veto-challenged\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-budget-veto-challenged\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Wisconsin Manufacturer and Commerce asked the state supreme court to strike Governor Evers\u2019 budget veto that went from obligating taxpayers to a $325 per student increase for the next 2 school years, to obligating them to that increase for 400 years. WMC filed the direct action petition on behalf of two taxpayers. The lawsuit relies on a 1990 constitutional amendment the voters adopted that made some significant changes in the governor\u2019s partial veto authority.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo, WMC. Someone needed to challenge this egregious use of partial veto power. Surely no governor has the right to override the state legislature and obligate taxpayers to any tax increase, let alone doing so for four hundred years by simply striking a digit or two and a hyphen. Here\u2019s hoping our supreme court, should it take the case, gets this one right.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/gov-evers-budget-veto-challenged\/ On Monday, Wisconsin Manufacturer and Commerce asked the state&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10276,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10275\/revisions\/10276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}