Huebsch Says Assembly Republicans Unified
Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, said in a news conference today with Capitol reporters that his caucus will bring forward a budget that does not increase taxes. Fees may be a different story, he said.
"The conference committee will be able to see a budget without tax increases because Republicans are going to show them how to do it," Huebsch said.
But Huebsch said that may not include some fee increases. "I have never included fees," he said.
"A fee is something we charge someone that uses a service of the state government," Huebsch said, citing the gas tax to pay for public roads as one example.
Huebsch said the Assembly budget will include the motion forwarded in the Joint Finance Committee by Republicans to cut out the oil franchise fee proposal from Gov. Jim Doyle's budget.
See the GOP proposal for funding transportation here.
See more on the press conference, including audio, in the WisPolitics PM Update this afternoon.
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