{"id":6346,"date":"2023-10-13T00:42:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T00:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6346"},"modified":"2023-10-13T01:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T01:09:10","slug":"milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=6346","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Politicians Go For Big Raise After Tax Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/12\/milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/10\/12\/milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newstalk1130.iheart.com\/featured\/common-sense-central\/content\/2023-10-09-exclusive-milwaukee-mayor-seeks-massive-raise-for-himself-aldermen\/\">Hats off to Dan O\u2019Donnell for breaking this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson wants to give himself a $20,000 raise next year and raise the pay of Common Council members and other elected officials by a whopping 15% after pushing for a 2% sales tax and huge increases in shared revenue to remedy the city\u2019s ongoing budget problems.<\/p>\n<p>Under Johnson\u2019s proposal, his annual salary would jump from $147,335.76 to $169,436.12. Common Council members would see an increase from $73,222.24 to $84,205.58 and the Common Council President\u2019s salary would be bumped from $82,749.16 to $94,310.25.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In his annual budget speech last month, Johnson highlighted a 2% raise for city employees and 3% pay increase for those with five or more years of service.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is how socialists roll. Big tax increase on the people. Tiny pay increase for the workers. Gigantic pay increase for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I had a tiny sliver of hope for Mayor Johnson, but I see that he is just another in a long line of Milwaukee grifters.<\/p>\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\/10\/12\/milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=milwaukee-politicians-go-for-big-raise-after-tax-increase Hats off to Dan O\u2019Donnell for breaking this story&#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-6346","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\/6346","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=6346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6347,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6346\/revisions\/6347"}],"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=6346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}