Source: SFGate
“Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday proposed cutting taxes by nearly $2 billion, echoing a priority of Republicans, while also outlining a plan to fight water pollution and push back on President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Evers will deliver his two-year spending plan to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Tuesday night. Republicans have promised to dramatically rewrite the plan, as they have done on his three previous budgets, before passing it later this year. Evers has clashed with Republicans over tax cuts in the past, gutting a $3.5 billion tax cut in the last budget, while approving a $2 billion tax cut in 2021. In his new budget, Evers said he will call for cutting taxes by nearly $2 billion — equal to about half of the state’s roughly $4 billion budget surplus. Republicans have said they want to use all the state’s surplus to cut taxes.” (02/18/25)