Previously on This Just In…

The update:

Steve Taylor’s gonna love this!

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Gov. Tony Evers will propose next week in his two-year state budget a plan…to allow Milwaukee County to impose an additional 1% sales tax, if approved by voters through a referendum. The measure would require 50% of the new revenue to be distributed to the City of Milwaukee.

The proposal also allows all counties to impose an additional 0.5% sales tax and cities with populations of more than 30,000 (excluding Milwaukee) to impose a 0.5% sales tax “to diversify local revenue sources and better empower local governments to fund police and fire protection, EMS, transit, roads, and other important services, if approved by local referendum,” according to the governor’s office.

Under state law, counties can adopt a 0.5% sales tax on top of the 5% state sales tax. Milwaukee is one of the counties with that tax, according to the state Department of Revenue.

So on this item Supervisor Taylor is right there arm and arm with Tony Evers and even Tom Barrett and countless other Democrats who have always favored trying to coax folks into voting themselves a tax increase.

Very disappointing.

Not exactly what I envisioned when I did my part to help get the supervisor elected.