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StClone

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Sat Feb 4, 2023, 08:40 PM Feb 2023

Wisconsin Flat Tax Proposal by Repubs

Dangerous, ludicrous, disastrous...but the billionaires want it. Didn't Kansas drive its state financial picture right off a cliff with this crap a few years ago?

Wisconsin’s Republican leaders just can’t help themselves.

In November voters rejected a flat income tax when its proponent, Tim Michels, lost to Gov. Tony Evers. However, schemes to make the rich richer are the GOP’s trademark, so now Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has proposed eliminating the state’s mildly progressive income tax and replacing it with a 3.25% flat tax by 2026.

No matter how they try to package it, the flat tax would accomplish only two things: drastically deteriorate our quality of life in Wisconsin and, yes, provide a windfall for the super-wealthy.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2023/01/23/enacting-a-flat-tax-would-decimate-wisconsins-quality-of-life/69823849007/
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Wisconsin Flat Tax Proposal by Repubs (Original Post) StClone Feb 2023 OP
The GQP don't care what the majority wants ..... Lovie777 Feb 2023 #1
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