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"There are so many preposterous ideas in there..."
The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says there are all sorts of things hidden in Gov. Tony Evers’ proposed budget.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was on with Jay Weber on News Talk 1130 WISN Tuesday, and said Evers is using his new spending plan to try and push a progressive agenda on to the state.
“There are so many preposterous ideas in there, it's difficult to play whack-a-mole. I mean we obviously all know about the crazy thing where he wanted to eliminate mother and father in the statutes, but that's not even the most egregious thing in this document,” Vos explained. “When you look at where it is, it's a 20% spending increase. It takes a $4 billion surplus turning it into a $4 billion deficit. But even crazier, he creates a new income tax bracket. He expands welfare, and eliminates drug testing and work requirements for public assistance. He repeals Act-10 [and] Right to Work, puts back in a bunch of union ideas. Does undocumented immigrant tuition, gets rid of 28-day residency requirements for voting, puts in automatic voter registration.”
Vos has already declared most of Evers’ spending plan dead-on-arrival in the legislature.
But Vos dismissed the idea that Evers’ plan is some kind of joke.
“My biggest fear is that people have this idea that somehow Tony Evers is this middle-of-the-road, moderate, Midwestern ‘aw shucks grandpa’,” Vos said. “But the reality is he is a hardcore liberal, to his soul.”
Vos said Republican lawmakers are meeting this week to form a game plan of their own.
Right now that looks like sending the governor a tax cut plan first, then getting to work on a new state budget later this spring.
Vos said the details of that tax plan could be ready for the public in the next “week to 10 days.”
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