A $40 vehicle registration fee for City of Madison residents is new in 2020 and was created to support the expansion of Metro Transit bus service, including the future implementation of bus rapid transit. As part of the program, the City implemented new subsidies for low-income bus riders and youth.
The Madison Finance Committee also passed a budget amendment in October 2019 to pay for a reimbursement program for clients of the Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) nutrition program.
Families who participate in the WIC program and live in the City of Madison are eligible to receive a $40 Visa gift card. The program went into effect on January 21, 2020. Families must provide proof that they paid their vehicle registration in 2020. Proof of payment is the Certificate of Vehicle Registration that comes with the license plate tags. Families can receive a gift card for each vehicle they register.
Madison passes a wheel tax, but then passes a subsidy for folks on WIC to pay for the wheel tax. The real world effect is that they are transferring welfare money into the transportation budget.
Liberals utterly hate the poor.
Awful. Just awful.
If the people cannot afford the wheel tax, how can they afford gas, insurance, registration fee etc?
And this discriminates against people who receive food stamps, unemployment comp, social security etc.
Why is WIC so special?