Wisconsin Republicans Accuse Evers Of “Vote Buying” With $600 Million Tax Cut, Three Months Before Election

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers proposed a $600 million tax cut on Tuesday. A proposal that Republican legislative leaders rejected as a “vote-buying ploy” that comes suspiciously close to the November election Evers is running in, hoping to get re-elected to his position.

Evers’ Republican rival, Tim Michels, who spent the day touring Kenosha on the second anniversary of the unrest their in 2020, accused
Evers of trying to divert attention from the anniversary of the Kenosha unrest.

Evers said he was just trying to help Wisconsin families struggling with high inflation.

Evers said the the tax cuts, which would only qualify for only certain groups of Wisconsinites, would come as a result of the state’s projected budget surplus by mid-2023 possibly growing to as much as $5 billion dollars.

“We’re not going to jeopardize future budgets in the midst of a recession to fund a tax gimmick,” Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said in a statement rejecting the proposal. “If the projected surplus materializes, we will cut taxes for everyone,” Vos said. “We will not pick
winners and losers like Tony Evers does with this vote-buying ploy.”