Gov. Evers’ irresponsible budget - Badger Institute

Gov. Evers’ irresponsible budget - Badger Institute

Proposed spending would bring General Fund balance to dangerously low level Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget for the biennium that starts in July increases spending by more than $3 billion a year over current levels. That increased spending would be funded in part by increased revenues — about $4.6 billion in higher tax revenue over the two-year period — but also by using up $3.6 billion of Wisconsin’s General Fund balance. Evers’ proposal woul…

Your Business Advocate: WI Supreme court decision will affect legislative budget process | Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce

On Friday, April 18, a split Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ veto in the 2023-25 budget that wrote into state law annual increases in how much Wisconsin schools can spend per student for the next 400 years. The budget that Republican lawmakers sent to Evers called for an increase of $325 a year per student in both 2023-24 and 2024-25. Evers struck the “20” and a dash from the reference to “2024-25,” which changed the e…