Tony Evers is on to something when he calls the ballooning referendum dollars local school taxpayers in Wisconsin are seeking "a Walker tax."
Walker and his GOP legislative allies pose for holy pictures and preen in campaign ad spots claiming to have reduced your taxes, but huge GOP cuts to local schools and state-imposed financial caps leave school boards and parents little choice except making up the shortfalls with more local spending.
Here are other taxpayer expenses correctly labeled 'Walker taxes.'
* That $900+ experts say are added to a Wisconsin resident's annual driving costs in maintenance and repairs traced to poor condition of Wisconsin roads.
Scottholes take money right out of your wallet because Walker has deliberately underfunded road aids, bridge repairs and other state transportation functions..
* The legal fees and lost personal time drained fighting state agencies which have enabled brown tap water, wetland losses and other capitulations to Walker donors big business by a deliberately weakened DNR.
* Including costly multiple battles for land rights, clean air, wetland preservation and Lake Michigan water kicked off by Walker's pet project - - Foxconn.
* And similar fights over the Menominee River shoreline mining plan, the Meteor sand mine, the Kohler golf course, the Penokee Hills iron ore proposal, and CAFOs from Kewaunee County to the Central Sands.
* And don't forget the costly legal work to reverse get rid of voter ID and overturn blatant, partisan gerrymandering, and to fight limitations on early voting hours - - key elements in the Walker/GOP blueprint to use state public resources and remain in charge.
Through these costs which need to be labeled "Walker taxes," all.
Walker and his GOP legislative allies pose for holy pictures and preen in campaign ad spots claiming to have reduced your taxes, but huge GOP cuts to local schools and state-imposed financial caps leave school boards and parents little choice except making up the shortfalls with more local spending.
Here are other taxpayer expenses correctly labeled 'Walker taxes.'
* That $900+ experts say are added to a Wisconsin resident's annual driving costs in maintenance and repairs traced to poor condition of Wisconsin roads.
Scottholes take money right out of your wallet because Walker has deliberately underfunded road aids, bridge repairs and other state transportation functions..
* The legal fees and lost personal time drained fighting state agencies which have enabled brown tap water, wetland losses and other capitulations to Walker donors big business by a deliberately weakened DNR.
* Including costly multiple battles for land rights, clean air, wetland preservation and Lake Michigan water kicked off by Walker's pet project - - Foxconn.
* And similar fights over the Menominee River shoreline mining plan, the Meteor sand mine, the Kohler golf course, the Penokee Hills iron ore proposal, and CAFOs from Kewaunee County to the Central Sands.
* And don't forget the costly legal work to reverse get rid of voter ID and overturn blatant, partisan gerrymandering, and to fight limitations on early voting hours - - key elements in the Walker/GOP blueprint to use state public resources and remain in charge.
Through these costs which need to be labeled "Walker taxes," all.