{"id":11225,"date":"2024-06-18T00:46:23","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11225"},"modified":"2024-06-18T00:58:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T00:58:06","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-takes-case-of-evers-400-year-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11225","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Takes Case of Evers\u2019 400-year Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/06\/17\/wisconsin-supreme-court-takes-case-of-evers-400-year-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wisconsin-supreme-court-takes-case-of-evers-400-year-tax-increase<\/a><\/p>\n

This will be interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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MADISON, Wis. \u2014 The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a challenge to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 partial veto that locked in a school funding increase for the next 400 years, the justices announced Monday.<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center filed a lawsuit in April arguing the governor exceeded his authority. The group asked the high court to strike down the veto without waiting for the case to go through lower courts.<\/p>\n

The court issued an order Monday afternoon saying it would take the case. The justices didn\u2019t elaborate beyond setting a briefing schedule.<\/p>\n

At issue is a partial veto Evers made in the state budget in July 2023 that increased revenue public schools can raise per student by $325 annually until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and vetoed the \u201c20\u201d and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

By the law, it seems clearly unconstitutional. While the Wisconsin Constitution stupidly gives the Governor the power to veto individual letters, it is clear that the power to write laws and raise taxes lies exclusively within the power of the legislature.<\/p>\n

Politically, the leftists control the court. One might instinctively think that they will rule in favor of Evers to support \u201ctheir guy.\u201d However, handing that kind of power to the governor in perpetuity is fraught with risk for the Liberals. Wisconsin is an evenly divided state and there is no certainty that the Democrats will control the governorship last Evers\u2019 current term. If the court enhances the power of the governor\u2019s veto, what will a Republican governor do with it?<\/p>\n

Remember that the court just unconstitutionally redrew the legislative districts in the hopes of taking back one or both houses of the legislature. Will the shoot themselves in the foot by disempowering the legislature just when they are poised to take it back?<\/p>\n

If I were a betting man, I\u2019d bet that the court\u2019s liberals will make the correct ruling that the governor exceeded his authority. It\u2019s smarter politics to play the long game for legislative power. It also allows them to portray the court as balanced just before a pivotal court election next spring.<\/p>\n

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This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2024\/06\/17\/wisconsin-supreme-court-takes-case-of-evers-400-year-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wisconsin-supreme-court-takes-case-of-evers-400-year-tax-increase This will be interesting. MADISON, Wis. \u2014 The Wisconsin…<\/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-11225","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\/11225","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=11225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11226,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11225\/revisions\/11226"}],"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=11225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}