Evers already had expressed concern that Foxconn would not be able to meet its stated employment goal of filling 13,000 positions at its new factory in Mount Pleasant. If that’s the case, Evers said that the contract the state has with Foxconn may be “downsized.”
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Wisconsin’s Department of Transportation has identified 1,955 bridges in need of repair at an estimated cost of $1.4 billion, according to ARTBA’s report.
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Wisconsin ranked 47th in the nation in a recent WalletHub analysis of which states have the lowest property tax rate.
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The system of checks and balances has deteriorated and poses “a danger to our system of government and to individual liberty.”
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Gov. Tony Evers’ first budget proposes giving more authority to unelected bureaucrats, reducing transparency, reversing state law to cede more power to the federal government, and would raise taxes by at least $1,000 per person in Wisconsin to pay for it, critics argue.
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Evers’ budget plan calls for a return to the state picking up two-thirds of K-12 funding, but would put more money into the state’s long-failing schools.
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The total for Wisconsin amounted to 9.2 percent of spending, or enough to run the government for 33.6 days, the analysis reported.
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Moving toward a single-payer healthcare system also would cost taxpayers an additional $30 billion in the first year alone, the state’s free market think tank, the MacIver Institute, calculates.
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Neylon said he and other lawmakers are still pushing the plan to end the sales tax by the end of this year.
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The Democratic National Committee on Monday announced that Milwaukee will host the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
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