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Utility Fee Hits WE Energies Bills

Yea!

The state-authorized surcharge on electric bills to pay for district attorney salaries is now hitting utility bills of We Energies customers.

The Milwaukee utility is the last of the investor-owned utilities in the state to begin collecting the surcharge. The increase took effect with bills processed on Thursday, utility spokesman Brian Manthey said.

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Prosecutors are being paid from a fund originally designed to help poor people pay their utility bills and weatherize their homes. The extra fee is the latest in a series of budget maneuvers that have sent a total of $166 million from electricity ratepayers to non-energy-related state government purposes since 2002.

Posted by Owen at 1727 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Of course, the payment has NOTHING to do with the value of services rendered.  Factories pay a larger rate than ‘small businesses,’ which pay a larger rate than ‘consumers.’

   I know, I know.  It’s merely a game.

   This was NOT a Tax Increase, see?

   Posted by dad29 on December 18, 2009 at 2212 hrs
   
   
   

2. WPS started theirs a couple of months ago.  But the real crime is that this money isn’t even going for what we are being told it is—it is ending up in the general fund.

   

   Posted by hsgbdmama on December 19, 2009 at 0824 hrs
   
   
   

3. The Democrat’s Christmas present to the citizens of Wisconsin.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on December 19, 2009 at 0918 hrs
   
   
   

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