This post originally appeared at https://wifamilycouncil.org/radio/legislators-circulate-bill-to-reverse-evers-partial-veto/
Republican legislators began circulating a bill this month to reverse Governor Evers’ partial veto from two years ago that increased school funding by $325 per pupil each year for the next 400 years. To pay for this additional funding, the governor now has the power to increase the property tax levy limit without any input from the Legislature. The new bill, however, proposes eliminating the per-pupil adjustment altogether, thus ending this unchecked spending.
Unfortunately, the state supreme court has allowed this egregious overreach of Governor Evers’ veto. Creating laws is not the governor’s nor the court’s job; it’s the legislature’s, which is exactly what these lawmakers are doing with this proposal. Ironically, this bill, should it pass in the legislature, will be subject to Evers’ veto pen.
Julaine Appling