In all, Republicans want to spend $484 million on road construction and repair in the new two-year state budget. Evers wanted to spend $624 million. He would have paid that spending with a $500 million increase in Wisconsin’s gas tax.
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If there is a need to increase spending, the state should pay for it directly and not increase borrowing.
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JFC members gave themselves the power to decide if a per-mile fee is needed, what those fees would cost, and whether those fees need to increase at any time.
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The conservative base expects Republican lawmakers to be a check on the Evers administration, “not a check for the Evers administration.”
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In the next few weeks we will know whether GOP opponents of the Evers road plan can block it in the Senate. Count on the map to be an important part of the discussion.
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Wisconsin finished 25th among the 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., in a new analysis examining which states have the highest percentage of bridges in poor condition.
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The failure to increase the gas tax is perhaps a sign of Evers’ lack of any rapport with the Republicans in the legislature.
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Whatever package is okayed this time around merely sets the stage for yet another major debate in 2021-23.
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Note: See the follow-up, Revisiting the Likely Transportation Compromise. While details remain to...
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Both state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, and state Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, were silent about the gas tax increase’s future
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