Wisconsin governor signs bill to make tax rise tougher

[FBaggins]

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed into law on Tuesday a bill to make it tougher to approve state tax increases, a measure that is not related to the protests over attempts to curb the power of public unions.

The new law, which was proposed by the Republican governor, requires a two-thirds majority vote in the Senate and Assembly to raise income, sales or franchise tax rates instead of a simple-majority vote.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/22/us-wisconsin-taxes-idUSTRE71L5F520110222

A silly useless gesture. It'll take a 2/3 majority to pass a tax increase, but it will take a simple majority to pass a law changing the tax-increase threshold back to a simple majority.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. See California and you tell me this is useless

[FBaggins]

2. Do you know where the California super-majority requirement comes from?

n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Yep it was passed and signed by the legislator\governor

in the 1990s

[FBaggins]

4. It's part of the state Constitution.

There's a big difference.