{"id":3008,"date":"2023-05-23T11:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T11:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2023-05-23T12:06:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T12:06:58","slug":"a-bad-bill-gets-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"A bad bill gets worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/23\/a-bad-bill-gets-worse\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bad-bill-gets-worse\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/23\/a-bad-bill-gets-worse\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-bad-bill-gets-worse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westbenddailynews-wi.newsmemory.com?selDate=20230523&amp;goTo=A06&amp;artid=0\">My column for the <em>Washington County Daily News<\/em> is online and in print<\/a>. It\u2019s about the continuing machinations over the Shared Revenue bill in the Wisconsin legislature. Here\u2019s a taste:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">As a concession to the governor, the bill that finally passed the Assembly kept most of the deal for Milwaukee intact but spends more and watered down some of the restrictions. The Assembly Republicans negotiated and drafted the new version in private and rushed it to a vote without anyone having time to even read it. There is absolutely no reason to rush the bill through and the \u201cwe have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it\u201d mentality is exactly the kind of bad governance that gives politicians their slimy reputations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">Through all of this, nobody apparently thought to ask the Senate Republicans what they want in a bill. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has expressed concerns for the bill and seems to share Governor Evers\u2019 worry about asking the voters in Milwaukee before raising their taxes. It seems unlikely that the Senate will pass an identical bill to the Assembly thus forcing a reconciliation before it ever reaches the governor\u2019s desk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">What are we doing here? Republicans are clamoring for a massive spending increase and trying to bail out the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee County for decades of terrible policies? The ornamental conservative policies being hung on the bill are a glittery distraction from the abysmal spending and opening the floodgates for local tax increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"abody\"><span class=\"Fid_4\">If the bill ever reached Evers\u2019 desk, let us hope that he will veto it to put an end to the Republicans\u2019 momentary lunacy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/05\/23\/a-bad-bill-gets-worse\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-bad-bill-gets-worse My column for the Washington County Daily News is&#8230;<\/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-3008","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\/3008","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=3008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3009,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3008\/revisions\/3009"}],"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=3008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}