The League of Wisconsin Municipalities is mad that governments have to ask the taxpayers before raising taxes. They want a way to do it without having to justify the reasons for the increase and get permissions for raising taxes.
“Our current system of funding local governments is in need of serious repair. Of those eight referendums, six were in regard to hiring additional police, fire or EMS, or building and operating a new public safety building. Wisconsin is the only state in the country that funds local police and fire/EMS services solely by property taxes. We cannot rely exclusively on property taxes to fund these critical services that enable our society to function. We must find a new way for local governments to be properly funded in the state of Wisconsin. To those who would say ‘the system works’ because these local governments were able to go to a referendum to raise property taxes, we would point out that is a poor solution. No other state places such an overwhelming majority of the local government and school funding burden onto the property tax. Both the challenge (increasing first responder calls) and the “solution” (raising property taxes) will become even more problematic as Wisconsin’s population ages.”
Do they have the sadddzzzz???
Poor babies.
Here’s an idea: have them BEG for it on the corners. It’ll make the referendum thing soooooo much better by comparison.