MADISON, Wis. — State Rep. Amanda Nedweski on Wednesday criticized Democrats and several Republicans after a proposed tax relief and education funding package failed to advance in the Wisconsin Senate.
The legislation would have provided more than $600 million in additional funding for Wisconsin schools, including what supporters described as the largest increase in special education reimbursement funding in state history. The package also included tax relief measures such as eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay and sending $300 rebate checks to taxpayers based on 2024 tax returns.
According to reports from the Capitol, the proposal faced opposition from Assembly and Senate Democrats, along with some Republicans who argued the plan either spent too much of the state surplus or did not provide enough tax relief.
“Legislative Republicans spent years budgeting responsibly, putting Wisconsin in the strong fiscal position today to be able to return the surplus to hardworking families while making another historic investment in special education,” Nedweski said. “Democrats think the surplus belongs to them to be able to spend it on their next political pet project.”
Wisconsin Public Radio reported that Democrats on the Joint Finance Committee unanimously opposed the proposal, with some arguing the deal did not go far enough to solve long-term school funding issues.
The proposal also drew criticism from Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany, who reportedly called the rebate checks a “gimmick” and argued the tax cuts were insufficient.
Nedweski accused Democratic lawmakers of rejecting both education funding increases and tax relief for working families.
“Today, Democrat lawmakers said ‘no’ to historic investments in special education and ‘no’ to helping hardworking families keep more of what they earn,” Nedweski said. “While Republicans led the effort to return the surplus to Wisconsin families, Democrat leaders spent more time complaining that they were left out of negotiations.”
Nedweski also renewed criticism of Gov. Tony Evers over the controversial “400-year veto,” arguing it contributed to rising property taxes statewide.
“Wisconsin families saw the single largest property tax increase in 30 years this past December because of the Governor’s 400-year veto,” Nedweski said. “This bill will provide meaningful relief for families now, but long-term property tax relief starts with electing a Republican governor who will repeal the 400-year veto once and for all.”
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“Wisconsin families saw the single largest property tax increase in 30 years this past December because of the Governor’s 400-year veto,” Nedweski said. “This bill will provide meaningful relief for families now, but long-term property tax relief starts with electing a Republican governor who will repeal the 400-year veto once and for all”
Yup Folks !! That’s All We Have to Do !!
Elect a Republican.
For all of us reading this Story.
It is on Us to make this Happen !!
Call your friends. Talk to your neighbors.
Become involved in ensuring our side shows up in November !!!
It’s that Simple
The best way to drive development and increase revenue in Wisconsin is to lower ALL taxes in Wisconsin.
We have almost $4 BILLION in cash. Don’t give it away, instead let’s use those funds to pay the state’s bills over time and then:
Pass legislation that completely phases out ALL income taxes in Wisconsin in the next several years.
Lower real estate tax levies.
Growth will come and money will pour in as people and businesses from Illinois and Minnesota will move across the state lines and help grow Wisconsin.
Tiffany, for the win.
Most of that surplus is from unbelievably reckless printing of money and handing it out like party favors by the Biden administration, and worst Governor Evers saved a bunch of it as a war chest and for buying votes.
We need to stop reckless spending in the name of education and the children, after seeing that there is no interest by those who run education in actually educating anyone. On top of that, not a penny should be spent for any additional or new programs because we will go through the perpetual always add never subtract routine and to get farther in debt down the road always being forced to come up with the additional money to fund them. Again, most of our surplus is from a one-time covid boondoggle and should be treated as such.
Schools are paid X number of dollars per kid in school.
School funding goes down partly because we are not producing large families and more kids.
That extends to Social Security too !
Solve that problem
It’s very hard to get republicans elected with lazy candidates who barely try and lazy citizens who don’t vote ..
Should have ran Rebecca Kleefisch
Imagine where we would be now !!
She’s wrong, more school funding is absurd. And $300 for over payment of taxes is way too low. This bill needed to be scrapped.
Repeal the 400 year tax increase and give meaningful relief to the people who actually pay the bills in this state.
A one time $300 tax cut is political theater. That barely covers a few tanks of gas, a utility bill, or a grocery run for a family. Meanwhile, hardworking taxpayers continue getting squeezed while Madison keeps expanding programs and spending with no accountability.
Wisconsin families are tired of watching their tax dollars disappear into failing systems and endless subsidies while they work longer hours just to stay afloat. The people getting up every morning, going to work, paying mortgages, paying property taxes, and keeping this state running are constantly told there’s never enough money for them. But somehow there’s always money available for more bureaucracy, more handouts, and more spending.
And while taxpayers struggle with rising costs, we’re expected to continue subsidizing everything from energy bills to groceries to housing programs for people who contribute little or nothing back into the system. At some point, working families deserve to come first.
Then you look at education funding. Milwaukee Public Schools, one of the worst-performing districts in the country, is reportedly set to receive another $33 million under this deal, while all private choice schools statewide combined receive only $16 million. One failing district gets more than double the funding of schools that often produce better outcomes with less overhead and more accountability.
Wisconsin doesn’t have a revenue problem. It has a priorities problem.
WHO DO YOU KNOW WANTS TO PAY MORE TAXES? ANYONE? ANYONE? BUELLER?
Nobody likes paying more taxes. But get real. Police cars don’t get gas and snow plows diesel for free. Inflation impacts taxes, too.
Don’t like your public schools? Vote in new school board members.
I fear the legislature’s action (or inaction) means the state Supreme Court will likely revisit whether the school funding formula violates the state constitution.
That was a whole lot of nothing.
The proper description is “democrat” lawmakers, not “democratic” lawmakers.
Both democrats AND republicans are “democratic” ……. you have to designate which
is a Republican lawmaker and which is a Democrat lawmaker.
Lets not be “AP” – giving democrats inflated credibility with every written article.
“designation”, not “description” ……
Lots of years have passed with Robin Vos leading a Republican majority in the legislature. Lots of opportunity for Vos to lead on holding the public school system accountable for failing to meet educational expectations as well as limiting partnering in social welfare programs increasing the tax burden.
Ms. Nedweski certainly has skill sets in gaining media exposure but has yet to deliver on any significant reduction in taxes for Wisconsin’s working class.
And how exactly do you get Tony Evers to sign any of the things you mentioned? The minute a Democrat says investment I generally start laughing too hard to hear the rest of the sentence. The Republican legislature can only write water down bills that ever well maybe sign without vetoing them to death.
kmwerfamily – It is not more school funding; it was the funding that was promised to our local schools for special education and then was never received. It is impossible for a local school district to fund the required education for special education when the State does not provide the monies that was promised by the State. Now those school districts need to cut programs, reduce other services in other areas or reduce staff.
The important part of leaving a comment is to understand the problem beyond a single article before commenting.
You had me at, ‘no more school funding’.
Sounds like she is making excuses for the bottom line….which is she didn’t get the job done.
No, sounds like we have a governor who won’t sign what we want her to get done.
Which is what happens when both parties think her idea is shitty. In this political climate….if both parties hate your plan then it fucking sucks.
Betcha you could feed a family for a month for what that make-over and glamour photo cost! Sort of gives off a Marie Antoinette ‘let them eat cake’ vibe.
Leftist pricks don’t give a rats ass about the people. Pander to teachers union and dump more waste into schools.
You can’t fix a spending problem with more money.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
In addition to socialism….might as well add liberal teachers unions along with most all Democrats.
Whoohooo! $300! Boy! That would really help after you take all the millions for the schools!
Give the kids some TRUE education! Stop changing the score level to make it appear the kids are getting higher grades than they really are, get rid of all the TEACHERS, COUNSELORS, COACHES, AND ASSISTANTS that are SA the children! Stop allowing those educators to get a free.pass to move on to the next school by allowing them to “resign”!
Show all of us some ACCOUNTABILITY and then MAYBE you can get some attention for getting money for the schools!
The TAX payers aren’t responsible for giving schools more money when money that was supposed to be going to the special education schools/programs was never given to them. We ALREADY gave. We aren’t given it to you again! It’s not the taxpayers fault ypu didn’t get it.
Hard to take anyone seriously who hangs out in a drug den in Silver lake.