Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:40 and sunset 5:35 for 10h 55m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 96.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board meets tonight beginning at 7:30 PM in open session in the high school library and closed session in Room 267.
On this day in 1879, in Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
Erik Gunn reports Child care tax credit most likely to survive among tax bills GOP sent to Evers:
A $2.1 billion tax cut package that Republicans in the Legislature introduced after Gov. Tony Evers vetoed previous tax cut proposals will now go to Evers for his signature, another rejection, or a little of both.
The package includes four separate bills that passed the state Senate on Tuesday after passing the Assembly a week ago. Wednesday morning Emilee Fannon, Capitol correspondent for Milwaukee TV station WDJT Channel 58, tweeted that Evers said he would sign “some, but not all” of the bills but didn’t elaborate.
The most promising candidate for Evers’ signature is AB-1023, a bill increasing the Wisconsin child care tax credit. The tax credit is a modest offset for family child care expenses.
All but four Democrats in the Assembly last week and three in the Senate on Tuesday joined Republicans in passing the child care tax credit — making it seem likely that the Democratic governor will go along. Bipartisan support has been a leading predictor of whether Evers will sign legislation that reaches his desk. The Senate voted Tuesday to concur with the Assembly on the three other bills in the GOP package:
- AB-1020 passed 22-10 on party lines. The measure raises the income ceiling on the second-lowest state income tax rate of 4.4% to $112,500 for single filers and $150,000 for married couples filing jointly.
- AB-1021 passed by a vote of 23-9. It exempts from the state income tax retirement income up to $75,000 for single filers and $150,000 for joint filers.
- AB-1022 passed on a 22-10 party-line vote. This measure almost doubles the tax credit for married couples.
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