{"id":521,"date":"2007-02-14T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T14:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/02\/14\/diamond-jim-on-taxes-increase-increase-increase\/"},"modified":"2011-11-04T21:35:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:35:24","slug":"diamond-jim-on-taxes-increase-increase-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/diamond-jim-on-taxes-increase-increase-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Jim on Taxes: Increase, Increase, Increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was never a tax increase that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle didn&#8217;t like! Here&#8217;s the list from his latest budget:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tax on a pack of cigarettes: from $1.25 to $2.02<\/li>\n<li>Vehicle registration fees: from $55 to $75<\/li>\n<li>Driver&#8217;s license fees: from $24 to $34<\/li>\n<li>Property taxes: they can go up as much as 4%, which is double the two-year cap that expired in January. This would mean a $75 increase on a home with taxes of $2,730 last year.<\/li>\n<li>New hospital tax: 1% of gross revenue<\/li>\n<li>Nursing home bed tax: from $75 a month per bed to $125 a month<\/li>\n<li>Real estate transfer tax: from $3 to $5 per $1,000 of sale price. This would make the transfer tax on a $166,000 home sale go from $498 to $830.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, Jimmy is proposing taking $175 million from the state&#8217;s malpractice fund and wasting that too! Oh, and did I mention that when running for governor in 2002, Doyle said he&#8217;d cut 10,000 state jobs? He&#8217;s barely made a dent in that so far with less than 3,000 jobs cut, and his current budget <strong>adds <\/strong>791 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was never a tax increase that Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle didn&#8217;t like! Here&#8217;s the list from his latest budget: Tax on a pack of cigarettes: from $1.25 to $2.02 Vehicle registration fees: from $55 to $75 Driver&#8217;s license fees: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-8p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}