{"id":2538,"date":"2023-05-02T17:31:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:59:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T17:59:24","slug":"wmc-applauds-finance-committee-for-actions-on-the-state-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"WMC Applauds Finance Committee for Actions on the State Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-applauds-finance-committee-for-actions-on-the-state-budget\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-applauds-finance-committee-for-actions-on-the-state-budget\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 The Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) voted on Tuesday to remove 545 of Gov. Tony Evers\u2019 budget proposals that would have increased taxes on individuals and businesses, limited educational options for students trapped in failing schools, made health care more expensive, and raised the costs to make and build things in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposals included in Gov. Evers\u2019 budget would not only expand the size and scope of government significantly, they would have had a devastatingly harmful effect on our economy,\u201d said WMC Executive Vice President of Government Relations Scott Manley. \u201cIt is clear that the members of JFC who voted to repeal these detrimental policies are putting the people of Wisconsin and our economy first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Included in Gov. Evers\u2019 budget proposal were policies that would have:<br \/>\n\u2022 Raised taxes on manufacturers by $650 million through the essential repeal of the Manufacturing &amp; Agriculture Tax Credit<br \/>\n\u2022 Limited worker freedoms by repealing Wisconsin\u2019s Right to Work law<br \/>\n\u2022 Made public construction projects more expensive by reinstating the costly prevailing wage law<br \/>\n\u2022 Increased property taxes by instituting an automatic two-percent minimum levy limit increase<br \/>\n\u2022 Trapped more families in failing schools by capping enrollment in Wisconsin\u2019s popular school choice program<br \/>\n\u2022 Increased private health insurance costs by using federal tax dollars to expand Medicaid<br \/>\n\u2022 Forced additional costs on workers and employers by creating a taxpayer-funded paid family leave program<br \/>\nOn a party line vote, Republicans on JFC approved a measure to remove each of these from the budget, along with many other misguided policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s actions are a win for Wisconsin taxpayers,\u201d added Manley. \u201cWMC and our members applaud the actions from JFC today and look forward to working with members of the Legislature to craft a budget that protects our economy, improves education and provide much-needed tax relief to hard-working Wisconsinites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-applauds-finance-committee-for-actions-on-the-state-budget\/\">WMC Applauds Finance Committee for Actions on the State Budget<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-applauds-finance-committee-for-actions-on-the-state-budget\/ MADISON \u2013 The Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) voted&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2539,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}