• MicroWave@lemmy.worldOP
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    Evers reduced the GOP income tax cut from $3.5 billion to $175 million, and did away entirely with lower rates for the two highest earning brackets. He also used his partial veto power to increase how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425.

    Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425.

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      Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425

      Now that’s what I’m talking about. I will gladly cheer on this kind of fuckery when it does good.

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      I’m all for what he did, but with a power like this, he or any other future governor can veto “doesn’t” to “do” and “can’t” to “can”. Probably baiting the WI SCOTUS to strike down the power before dems loose the office.

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      Anyone more familiar with how this works? Like, that wording is weird to me. How much revenue they can raise per student.

      So is this like, local school taxes? Or like local fund raising? That wording doesn’t sound like it’s as big a win as the article title makes it sound like?

      What are they supposed to do in the year 2425? Raise $140,000 per student?

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        Wisconsin allows this kind of partial veto by their governor. Scott Walker did a similar thing when he was governor preventing schools from adopting energy efficiency for hundreds of years

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          TIL. I’m surprised that this is allowed. Usually vetos are at most line-item, not down to individual characters.

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        Honest question if you have inside knowledge - doesn’t the Wis. Governors partial veto authority make this constitutional?