{"id":2522,"date":"2023-05-02T00:03:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2023-05-02T01:16:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T01:16:30","slug":"assembly-speaker-robin-vos-milwaukee-voters-will-decide-local-sales-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2522","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Speaker Robin Vos: Milwaukee Voters Will Decide Local Sales Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/assembly-speaker-robin-vos\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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If Milwaukee wants to raise its sales tax, it\u2019s going to have to convince voters it\u2019s the right thing to do.<\/p>\n

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was on UPFRONT over the weekend and said there\u2019s no appetite among Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol to remove the referendum requirement for a Milwaukee and Milwaukee County sales tax increase from the new shared revenue proposal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess if there\u2019s a counter-proposal, I\u2019m always willing to take a look at it, but that\u2019s certainly not where we are today,\u201d Vos said.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s mayor on Friday expressed a bit of frustration with the requirement that Milwaukee and Milwaukee County get voter approval before raising taxes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I said there are some disagreements. And some areas where there is still an opportunity to work on this,\u201d Mayor Cavalier Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Republican leaders at the Statehouse have said for months that local governments should go to local voters in order to raise taxes.<\/p>\n

Vos, on UPFRONT, said that\u2019s how most communities in Wisconsin get the things they need.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s no different than what it is for most municipalities around the state when they go and ask permission to increase their levy for police or try to build a new school,\u201d Vos said.<\/p>\n

He did, however, acknowledge that the vote could fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s certainly a possibility, which would be catastrophic for the city,\u201d Vos said.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley was also on UPFRONT over the weekend.<\/p>\n

He said if there is going to have to be a vote to raise taxes in Milwaukee County, he\u2019d like to see it happen as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to take a lot of education, as far as where we are and what we\u2019ve done to help lower many of the costs that we have, but also what we need moving forward,\u201d Crowley said. \u201cWe have to put it on the ballot rather quickly. At the end of the day, we want to make sure we can start collecting these revenues as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

If voters would approve, the city of Milwaukee would be able to increase its sales tax up to 2%. Milwaukee County would be able to add 0.375% to its sales tax.<\/p>\n

The Milwaukee and Milwaukee County taxes are just part of a half-billion dollar proposal to send more state money to local governments across Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

Vos said the legislation on the plan, which will include more specifics, should be finalized sometime this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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