{"id":4265,"date":"2023-07-17T23:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T23:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2023-07-18T00:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-18T00:07:34","slug":"milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=4265","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee County to Vote on Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/17\/milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/07\/17\/milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As sure as Chris Christie won\u2019t pass on a free doughnut, yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/milwaukee\/2023\/07\/17\/milwaukee-county-committees-advance-sales-tax-boost-to-a-july-27-vote\/70407249007\/\">they will vote to increase taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">A special joint County Board committee recommended approval of the county tax increase with two key votes \u2014 a 5-0 vote by the personnel committee and 4-3 vote from the finance committee. Supervisors Sequanna Taylor, Steve F. Taylor and Juan Miguel Martinez voted against the hike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">With the committee approvals, the full Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors will take a final vote on July 27 on the measure, which would nearly double the current county sales tax from the existing 0.5% to 0.9%.<\/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\/17\/milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=milwaukee-county-to-vote-on-tax-increase As sure as Chris Christie won\u2019t pass on a&#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-4265","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\/4265","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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"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=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}