Gov. Walker: Signs bill requiring 2/3s majority vote for income, sales tax increases

Source: Wisconsin Politics

Gov. Walker: Signs bill requiring 2/3s majority vote for income, sales tax increases
2/22/2011

Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303

Madison – Today, Governor Scott Walker signed Special Session Assembly Bill 5 which requires a 2/3s vote to pass tax rate increases on the income, sales or franchise taxes.

“I went to work today, met with my cabinet, and signed legislation that will help government operate within its means,” Governor Scott Walker said. “Wisconsinites can’t turn to raising taxes to balance their own family budgets when times get tough. This bill will ensure that we don’t kick the can down the road for a quick budget fix only to slap a long-term tax hike on the backs of Wisconsin taxpayers. I thank Senator Leah Vukmir and Representative Tyler August for their leadership on this issue.”

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that's okay with Walker.

we will just pass something to overturn this and then make the super-wealthy pick up their fair share.

:rofl: Get a brain, moran! :rofl:

...who wrote into the Constitution that 2/3 supermajorities were required for all routine matters.....

Oh, wait, no they didn't. They left it for the Big Ticket items: overriding a presidential veto, impeachment, ratifying treaties, amending the constitution, expelling a member of Congress, etc.

How many of them fancy themselves "originalists"?

in order to vote.

Boy these Republicans are a piece of work.

the mice will play.

They might as well get their whole laundry list passed while they can without opposition.

a governor to sign it and then they can pass tax increases with a simple majority. If they have the votes to do one they have the votes to do the other. This is window dressing.

Where does he think the government gets the money to give to his rich buddies?
This is just away of preventing the next governor from reinstating the tax cuts that he just gave to his rich friends.

Simply write a law requiring 100-percent concurrence (also known as the "liberum veto" or the "Polish Parliament veto") for tax cuts. I am 47 years old and I have not, in my lifetime, seen a tax cut that didn't damage the economy. There is therefore no reason why full concurrence should not be necessary before tax cuts are passed.

What a great idea - make it nearly impossible for the government to raise tax revenue!

.. deficit? What deficit?