{"id":9207,"date":"2024-02-08T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T16:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9207"},"modified":"2024-02-26T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T17:36:46","slug":"wmc-testifies-to-rein-in-raising-taxes-by-gubernatorial-veto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9207","title":{"rendered":"WMC Testifies to Rein in Raising Taxes by Gubernatorial Veto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-to-rein-in-raising-taxes-by-gubernatorial-veto\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-to-rein-in-raising-taxes-by-gubernatorial-veto\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Evan Umpir, WMC\u2019s General Counsel &amp; Director of Tax, testified in support of a state constitutional amendment that would prevent a governor from raising a tax or fee through use of his partial veto. In the 2023-25 (current) state budget, Governor Evers used his veto pen to raise property taxes for 402 years by increasing per-pupil school funding each school year through the year 2425. \u201cThese partial vetoes and their stealth property tax increase on hardworking Wisconsin homeowners and businesses is not what democracy looks like,\u201d Umpir testified.<\/p>\n<p>Reining in the Wisconsin partial veto authority is not unprecedented and not a partisan exercise. A 1990 amendment curbed the use of the \u201cVanna White\u201d veto after an unsuccessful challenge to Republican Governor Thompson\u2019s partial vetoes and a 2008 amendment banned the \u201cFrankenstein\u201d veto in response to Democrat Governor Doyle\u2019s use of it in the 2005 budget.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment must pass both the current Legislature and again the next Legislature before the amendment is submitted to voters for ratification.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.wmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/08112645\/Testimony_2023-AJR-112-Partial-Veto-Amendment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read WMC\u2019s testimony.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-to-rein-in-raising-taxes-by-gubernatorial-veto\/\">WMC Testifies to Rein in Raising Taxes by Gubernatorial Veto<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/issues\/wmc-testifies-to-rein-in-raising-taxes-by-gubernatorial-veto\/ Evan Umpir, WMC\u2019s General Counsel &amp; Director of Tax,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9208,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions\/9208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}