Shocking: State of Wisconsin Scamming Milwaukee County By More Than $3B In Revenue And The County Gets Less Than 9% Of That Shared Revenue

Milwaukee County suffers from inequity of State shared revenue, which gets less than 9% of the more than $3B it pays the State.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

August 9, 2019

Milwaukee, WI - Milwaukee County paid nearly $2.5B in revenue to the State of Wisconsin in 2014 and the County only received nearly $ .250B in shared revenue from the State, according to a Wisconsin Department of Revenue economist and Milwaukee County. Today, Milwaukee County pays at least $3B of revenue to the State per year and the County receives nearly $ .300B from the State in shared revenue, the inequity of shared revenue.
The current Milwaukee County budget is about $1.1B per year, which public safety (Sheriff's Department) and the County courts operation and the District Attorney's Office combined total cost to operate including health social services are the majority service budget costs. In the last nine years, about $260M have been cut (averaging budget cut between $25M to $28M per year) from the budget to make ends meet, according to Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele. When Abele was first elected, the annual Milwaukee County Budget was at $1.5B.

The Milwaukee County Board  should withhold its annual share revenue to the State until State legislators decide to return a fair share of revenue to Milwaukee County. Can the State legislature justify their blatant economic scam of Milwaukee County including other counties in the state? Most likely not, and does the State also practice the same shared revenue percentage rate return to other counties as Milwaukee County?

The unfair economic scam of Milwaukee County has been taking place for more than a decade under Democrats and Republicans in control of the legislature and the County continues to be an economic victim of a State scam/robbery today.

A referendum should also be placed on the ballot across the State including Milwaukee County that should ask taxpayers, if they would like local counties to stop paying the State a share revenue until the State reforms its share revenue to return a fair share of revenue to the counties.

Also, it would seem that Milwaukee County pays a huge share revenue to the State compared to other counties, would it be because of the large concentration of Latinos and Black populations in Milwaukee?

Taxpayers in all the counties of the State of Wisconsin should be infuriated today for being short change and should rise up against the so call share revenue economic scam of taxpayers.