Got my annual Christmas present from the city a few days before Christmas.
Yes, the property tax bill. Up about eight percent thanks to the budget adopted by the Democrat-run state Legislature and signed by America’s Worst Governor, Jim Milhous Doyleone.
Well, it could be worse. And will be, thanks to another gift from Diamond Jim.
James Wigderson tells us just how Jim Doyle wants one of his last dethpicable acts as governor to be yet another mammoth increase in property taxes.
With less than one year until we elect his successor, Governor Jim Doyle wants to complete his reputation as a tax-and-spend governor. Doyle announced right before Christmas that he would consider lifting the property tax caps on some school districts.
I think Wisconsinites would have preferred coal in our stockings.
Doyle plans on using $250 million in federal “Race to the Top” federal money to boost school funding in some districts. But when the “Race to the Top” money runs out, Doyle would like to lift the caps on property taxes in those districts.
That’s right. Doyle wants to spend more pork from Washington in some school districts then lift the caps on property taxes in those districts to allow the spending to continue by letting the educrats raise taxes as much as needed.
After all, we never spend as much on education as the proponents of gummint-run skoolz claim we need to. It’s for the children educrats/teachers.
Doyle and the Democrats already hurt us by eliminating the QEO, which capped pay raises to teachers at 3.8 percent. Would be nice to have a job that guaranteed you a 3.8 percent pay raise. Most people working real jobs are taking pay cuts if indeed they still have their jobs.
Wiggy says it best:
Wisconsin taxpayers may soon realize we can’t afford any more “free” money from the federal government.
That’s exactly why Scott Walker refused porkulus money for Milwaukee County earlier this year. There is no such thing as a temporary government program. It exists in perpetuity.
Had Walker taken that money, the County Board and bureaucracy would have been used for start-ups like KRM or light rail that the taxpayer would have been stuck with paying for when the “free” money from Uncle Sam Barack ran out.
There is no such thing as free money from the federal government. It comes with strings attached as well as an obligation for local taxpayers to continue to pay for whatever it wrought once the “free” federal money runs out.
