{"id":4108,"date":"2023-07-07T12:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T12:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2023-07-07T13:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T13:04:48","slug":"milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4108","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukeeans Rage at Prospect of Higher Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/07\/milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/07\/milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/06\/milwaukee-residents-bristle-at-2-sales-tax-path-to-stave-off-crisis\/70383305007\/\">Huh. Who knew<\/a>? Perhaps they should have been this energized at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Scores of Milwaukee residents turned out Thursday evening to voice their opposition to a proposed 2% city sales tax just days before Common Council members are set to take a critical vote on the new revenue source.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThey\u2019re telling us if we don\u2019t pass the 2% sales tax then we\u2019re going to go bankrupt. Well, then we\u2019ll go bankrupt,\u201d Beverly Hamilton-Williams said to applause at a town hall at Clinton Rose Senior Center, 3045 N. King Dr.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The frustration residents at the senior center expressed over the sales tax \u2014 and the bevy of changes to Milwaukee policies included in the new law that allows the city to enact it \u2014 stood in stark contrast to a smaller, more conversational town hall held at the same time by council members from the city\u2019s south side.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Before the Steering and Rules Committee vote on June 26, Ald. Mark Borkowski raised concerns about blowback from constituents if council members were to vote to implement a sales tax that doesn\u2019t enhance city services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cCurrent services suck,\u201d he said.<\/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\/07\/07\/milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=milwaukeeans-rage-at-prospect-of-higher-taxes Huh. Who knew? Perhaps they should have been this&#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-4108","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\/4108","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=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4109,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions\/4109"}],"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=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}