{"id":4174,"date":"2023-07-11T19:55:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2023-07-11T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T20:12:08","slug":"mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4174","title":{"rendered":"Mileaukee Jacks Up Sales Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/11\/mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/11\/mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/07\/11\/milwaukee-common-council-to-vote-on-2-sales-tax-tuesday\/70360586007\/\">But of course.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What began as a tense and unpredictable day at Milwaukee City Hall Tuesday ended with the Common Council\u2019s backing of a 2% local sales tax by a wider margin than required.<\/p>\n<p>The critical vote offers the city a new revenue source to avert major service cuts in 2025 even as some council members said it would put additional financial pressure on residents living in poverty.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Afterward, P\u00e9rez said he was a bit surprised it passed with more than the minimum 10 votes required. Ultimately, the tax passed with 12 in favor and 3 opposed.<\/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\/11\/mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mileaukee-jacks-up-sales-tax But of course. What began as a tense and&#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-4174","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\/4174","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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4175"}],"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=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}