Wisconsin’s New Democrat Governor Wants To Raise Taxes, Increase Benefits For Illegal Immigrants

The people of Wisconsin are going to start missing Governor Scott Walker sooner than they thought. The new Democrat Governor Tony Evers is already calling for higher taxes, increased spending and more benefits for people who are in the country illegally.

The Associated Press reports:

Highlights of Gov. Evers’ state budget proposal

ROADS: The state’s 32.9-cent gas tax would go up 8 cents, but the state’s minimum mark-up law on fuel that results in a roughly 9 percent increase in the price of gas would be eliminated. Gas taxes would automatically increase with inflation. Evers said the net effect could be a par-gallon decrease of as much as 14 cents. Heavy truck registration and new car titling fees would increase, but the $75 vehicle registration fee most car owners pay would not change. Borrowing for roads would be the lowest level in 20 years, while $320 million in new money would go toward highway repair and expansion.

DRIVER’S LICENSES: The budget would make people who are living in the country illegally eligible for driver’s licenses and identification cards.

TAXES: Income taxes for the middle class would be cut 10 percent. He would also limit a 30 percent capital gains exclusion to single people earning less than $100,000 and couples earning less than $150,000. That would bring in $500 million over two years. A new child care tax credit equal to 50 percent of the same federal credit would be created. First-time homebuyers could subtract up to $5,000 a year, $10,000 for married couples, in accounts to pay for home purchases that would grow tax-free.

Here’s more from Channel 3000:

Evers to raise gas tax, increase school funding, roll back Walker proposals in first state budget

In his first budget proposal, Democratic Gov. Tony Evers will increase Wisconsin’s minimum wage, raise the gas tax, provide new funding for schools and give income tax cuts to middle income families.

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To pay for his priorities, Evers’ two-year spending plan which he calls the “People’s Budget,” would roll back part of a manufacturing and agriculture tax credit program, expand Medicaid, use much of the state surplus, raise fees in transportation and limit the long-term capital gains tax.

Evers introduced the budget proposal Thursday night in the state Assembly chambers, but many of the provisions are likely not to pass the Republican-controlled state Legislature.

“At the end of the day, the people of Wisconsin expect and deserve for us to get to work on these pressing issues,” Evers said in his budget address. “Their plight must be our purpose, their crises our cause, and their desires our demands.”

Elections have consequences. Wisconsin is about to learn this lesson all over again.

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