{"id":2162,"date":"2023-04-14T16:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2162"},"modified":"2023-04-14T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:04:08","slug":"americans-for-prosperity-warns-wisconsin-lawmakers-against-spending-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2162","title":{"rendered":"Americans for Prosperity Warns Wisconsin Lawmakers Against Spending Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/americans-for-prosperity-warns-wisconsin-lawmakers-against-spending-too-much\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/americans-for-prosperity-warns-wisconsin-lawmakers-against-spending-too-much\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/wisconsin-charter-schools.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"wisconsin charter schools\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"derrick van orden\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 There was one group at Wisconsin\u2019s budget hearing pushing for less. Americans for Prosperity warned Wisconsin lawmakers about spending too much of the state\u2019s record $7.1 billion surplus.<\/p>\n<p>Americans For Prosperity Wisconsin this week waited through hours of requests for more money at the legislature\u2019s public budget hearings to make the simple case to spend less.<\/p>\n<p>AFP\u2019s Megan Novak told The Center Square Wisconsin cannot afford to recklessly spend over $100 billion like Gov. Tony Evers has suggested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom tax hikes, to spending increases in every section of the budget to handouts for professional sports teams, Governor Evers\u2019 proposal was a fantasy budget from the start. The Joint Finance Committee was right last time to scrap Governor Evers\u2019 tax and spend wish list budget, and we are glad to see they will be doing the same this time around,\u201d Novak explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint Finance Committee, which will actually write Wisconsin\u2019s new two-year spending plan, hosted two budget hearings this week. Both saw a cavalcade of local government leaders, local school leaders, and advocates press lawmakers for more money.<\/p>\n<p>Novak said the Republican-controlled JFC needs to keep a lid on state spending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAFP\u2019s grassroots activists showed up at budget hearings across the state to make sure the Joint Finance Committee knows there are hardworking taxpayers out there who support their efforts to return the surplus to the taxpayers, expand education freedom, and stop handouts to out-of-state millionaire sports team owners,\u201d Novak added.<\/p>\n<p>JFC members have been relatively silent about the Brewers\u2019 ballpark finding deal. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said last week that he wants a separate vote on the American Family Field plan, saying he wants to keep it out of the state budget.<\/p>\n<p>Novak also warned lawmakers about spending Wisconsin\u2019s record $7 billion surplus too quickly, or too frivolously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Evers\u2019 proposed budget would recklessly and irresponsibly spend our state\u2019s record surplus, somehow managing to turn a $7 billion surplus into a deficit in two years,\u201d Novak said. \u201c[We] strongly support reining in this proposed out of control spending, and instead focusing the state\u2019s next budget on meaningful tax reform, smart government spending, preventing stadium bailouts for out-of-state millionaires, and education freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/americans-for-prosperity-warns-wisconsin-lawmakers-against-spending-too-much\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 There was one group at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2162\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}