define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: Reason #16,329 taxes are out of control in Wisconsin https://norunnyeggs.com/2007/12/reason-16329-taxes-are-out-of-control-in-wisconsin/ The repository of one hard-boiled egg from the south suburbs of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (and the occassional guest-blogger). The ramblings within may or may not offend, shock and awe you, but they are what I (or my guest-bloggers) think. Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Jo Egelhoff https://norunnyeggs.com/2007/12/reason-16329-taxes-are-out-of-control-in-wisconsin/comment-page-1/#comment-33760 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:40:24 +0000 https://norunnyeggs.com/2007/12/reason-16329-taxes-are-out-of-control-in-wisconsin/#comment-33760 Yeah Steve, the Expenditure Restraint Program (ERP) doesn’t work for a variety of reasons, one of which you’ve identified. Another is that it awards a city if spending increases by no more than inflation +60% of new growth – in the General Fund. So cities create a million other funds – e.g., Sanitation, Parks, that kind of thing. All kinds of ways to get the money. Grrrr.

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