Madison, WI — State Representative Alex Dallman (R-Green Lake) released the following statement in response to Governor Evers signing the 2023-2025 biennial budget:
“Once again, Republicans drafted a biennial budget that is fiscally responsible and funds key priorities, while also returning money back to the taxpayers themselves. Major portions of this budget included provisions that were part of good-faith negotiations. Republicans led efforts to work across the aisle and with the Governor’s office in order to find compromise throughout this budget. Unfortunately, when it came down to the Governor Evers’ side of the bargain, he chose to put bureaucrats over taxpayers, DEI over our workforce, and massive tax hikes over the biggest tax cut in state history.
Instead of representing all taxpayers of Wisconsin, Governor Evers used his veto pen to eliminate the largest income tax cut in state history, while at the same time providing an avenue for massive property tax increases over the next 400 years! At a time of record inflation and a historic surplus, there was no bigger priority for Republicans than to send money back to the taxpayers. With his actions today, it is obvious that Governor Evers and his Madison bureaucrats can’t break into your wallets fast enough, even as Wisconsinites across our state struggle to make ends meet.
I hope that my constituents understand the true recklessness that liberal democrats, like Governor Evers, are perpetuating both here at home and in governments across the United States. It’s extremely frustrating to have worked so hard over the last several months on the Joint Committee on Finance to put forth a budget that was a good-faith effort to address so many challenges across Wisconsin. The Governor turned his back on our negotiations and the taxpayers of Wisconsin and you can be sure that any glimmer of trust that I had built over the last several months with Tony Evers and his staff has certainly vanished with his veto actions today.”