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[-] MicroWave@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] moosh@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Love to see it, especially later in 2435.

[-] PurpleAlpacaKing@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

!

Gooooood for them :D

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's not going to survive a court challenge.

[-] Trashcanman@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

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

[-] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[-] euclid@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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

[-] LetMeEatCake@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

It almost certainly is. It comports with precedent and prior Wisconsin court cases have ruled in favor of this use of the veto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_States#Wisconsin

[-] ZooGuru@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Plus, unless he’s done something inconsistent with the state constitution, the state Supreme Court will have a liberal majority in August. I can’t imagine this could be challenged by a lower state court and make its way to the state Supreme Court before then.

[-] money_loo@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

How do you /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect someone here? 😂

[-] randon31415@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Jfqs6m@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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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