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Originally Posted by bluesight
Yup...For some reason, progressive Gov Evers decided to own the hybrid vehicle tax. Seems like an incredibly bad move to tweak the 100,000 or so gas-only Prius owners that are typically considered to be on the liberal side of things, but that appears to be what happened. Maybe it's just about the money $$. Or maybe he thought Vos and Fitzgerald would be open to compromise (they weren't/aren't). So, good luck with that!
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This is called negotiation, Evers wanted to increase road funding via gas tax
Fitzgerald said he would only increase fees
Both had to agree to pass the increase so the Hybrid tax we have gotten to hear about for a decade is now reality.
When Fitzgerald pushed this through 8 months ago Walker rejected the non plug in language.
Now we get to have fee increases back to back 8 months apart.
I had told folks that said “Evers would change everything” they were full of it for just this reason
Heck since Fitzgerald has a scapegoat you will likely see all sorts of terrible legislation coming down the pipe. (And honestly we already have, when it was all Republicans there were no abortion bills, now all of a sudden we are seeing these going through)
You have republican control at all levels of government from the town board through the assembly that provides legislation to the governor to sign.
We can’t expect a single moderate democratic governor to change anything when everyone below him including the judicial are republicans.
He’s damned if he does damned if he doesn’t
And I guarantee this fee increase will not affect road funding and next fall there will be calls for another increase.
Heck after the last batch of fee increases and mandatory insurance total registrations dropped from 8.5 million to 6.5 million which virtually eliminated any funding effect.
Alt fuel including hybrids make up under 1% of cars in Wisconsin, the numbers simply don’t work for taxes like this.