Grothman: Better revenue should mean lower taxes

By M.D. Kittle | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON – The time has come
A fact’s a fact
It belongs to them
Let’s give it back

Midnight Oil’s “Beds are Burning,” the band’s late-1980s poli-rock anthem to settling Australia’s aboriginal score, could very well be the rallying cry of tax-cut crusaders like state Sen. Glenn Grothman.

The West Bend Republican will tell you the $71 million more in unanticipated tax revenue the state of Wisconsin grabbed up in the past fiscal year belongs to the taxpayers, and the state should give it back.

Grothman on Monday called on the Legislature to convene the fall session for the “purpose of reducing Wisconsin’s tax burden.”

“This was a fine budget in regard to taxes, resulting in the first personal income tax cut in fourteen years, and two of the five lowest property tax increases in the last twenty-five years,” the senator said in a release, referring to the $650 million in income tax cuts driven by Republicans in the recently signed 2013-15 budget.

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