Milwaukee Democrats Seek to Make Milwaukee County a Tax Island

Yeah, good plan 

Struggling to enact a transit sales tax before the end of the legislative session, Democrats are pushing a revised bill that still would establish a new Milwaukee County transit authority, funded by a 0.5% sales tax, that could take over the Milwaukee County Transit System, with County Board approval and eventually could merge into the existing Southeastern Regional Transit Authority.

But it would drop earlier plans for separate Kenosha and Racine transit authorities funded by hotel, vehicle registration or property taxes. Instead, starting Jan. 1, the Kenosha and Racine bus systems would become part of the regional authority, which already is responsible for the planned KRM Commuter Link rail line. The state could provide some added transit aid to those cities’ transit systems.

I fully support this legislation.  I look forward to consumers and businesses moving to Washington County in order to escape Milwaukee’s ever-increasing tax burden. 

We welcome all of you to Washington County.  We’re not perfect, but we’re a helluva a lot more sane than Milwaukee