The paper this morning has a thing about school taxes, and how some are up and some are down, but on average, they are down. This is primarily a testament to Jim Doyle's vetoes restoring (almost) the 2/3 funding promise made by known liberal pinko commie Tommy Thompson many years ago. Last year, recall, school taxes were up over 7% statewide in an effort to make up for state cuts. This year, overall, school property tax levies are down about half a percent.But the graphic (right) accompanying the story may help to explain why Wisconsin Assembly Speaker John Gard is always so testy and so distracted he does stupid things like support anti-gay marriage amendments and Milwaukee's voucher program. The top increase belongs to Sun Prairie, Gard's way-out-district home, but where he has a house and sends his kids to school. I suppose that the extra $44 a day Gard gets over and above what he deserves for per diem (Dane County reps get half what non-Dane residents do--Sun Prairie is in Dane County, but Gard gets elected from Peshtigo) more than makes up for the 11% increase, though.
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