This week’s Weekly Radio Addresses from Wisconsin’s Capitol are focused on taxes and redistricting. These addresses are available for Wisconsin broadcasters to use as they see fit. Here are the summaries from WisPolitics:
— In this week’s Republican , Sen. Joan Ballweg touts a GOP plan to cut taxes primarily aimed at the state’s third-highest tax bracket.
Ballweg says providing relief for families facing higher gas, grocery and other necessity prices is a top priority for legislative Republicans. She argues Wisconsin is in a historically strong position with a more than $3 billion surplus, adding that means the state has taken more from taxpayers than it needs.
“Last week, my legislative Republican colleagues and I announced a plan to return the surplus to where it came from–hardworking Wisconsin taxpayers like you,” she says.
The Markesan Republican says other states have taken advantage of the economic benefit tax cuts can provide.
“It’s time for our state government to return a portion the surplus, put more money in your family’s pockets, and strengthen our economy in both the short-term, and the long-term,” she says. “It’s a win-win, and it’s certainly something the governor should sign.”
— In this week’s Democratic , Gov. Tony Evers blasts Republicans for approving a redistricting plan he says was more of the same gerrymandering in the current legislative maps.
Evers says the current district lines are some of the most gerrymandered in the nation, and the Republican-proposed changes to Evers’ own redistricting plan only helped to bolster incumbents. The redistricting bill the GOP-led Legislature approved and sent to his desk last week was an amended version of the maps.
“Republicans passed maps to help make sure Republican-gerrymandered incumbents get to keep their seats,” he says. “Folks, that’s just more gerrymandering.”
The Plymouth native also defends his decision to veto the maps as a move to deliver on his promise to fight for fair maps.
“I was proud to submit maps to the Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider that are responsive to the will of the people, avoid partisan bias and increase the number of competitive legislative seats,” he says, “And I remain as optimistic as ever that Wisconsinites will soon have the fair maps they deserve at long last.”
Find the archive of weekly addresses, organized by the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association, by going to: http://www.wi-broadcasters.org/for-the-public/weekly-addresses-archive/
