Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Empower Wisconsin | Jan. 14, 2020
By Bill Osmulski, MacIver News Service
MADISON — Wisconsin property taxpayers are seeing the highest rate increases in a decade, but it could have been considerably worse.
Gov. Tony Evers last year pitched a “2 percent” plan that could have cost taxpayers a fortune. Fortunately, the Joint Finance Committee rejected it.
Bill Osmulski from MacIver News Service reports.
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