{"id":622,"date":"2004-10-15T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2004-10-15T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2004-10-15T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2004-10-15T00:01:59","slug":"democratic_plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=622","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Plan to Reduce Property Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/oct04\/266428.asp\">Steven Walters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Assembly&#8217;s Democratic leader says he will offer a plan next year to exempt the first $100,000 of an owner-occupied home&#8217;s value from property taxes for public schools.<br \/>\nThe change would lower property taxes on the average home by about $950 a year, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.<br \/>\nRep. James Kreuser (D-Kenosha) said his plan to amend the Wisconsin Constitution could not become law until 2007, at the earliest.<br \/>\nStill, he said, it would be better than Republicans&#8217; plans to limit property tax bills for the next three years, while they try to rewrite the constitution to control state and local government spending.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/bym\/news\/oct04\/266455.asp\">Avrum Lank says<\/a> that a Tax Foundation study ranks Wisconsin 41st out of 50 states in business tax climate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Walters: The Assembly&#8217;s Democratic leader says he will offer a plan next year to exempt the first $100,000 of an owner-occupied home&#8217;s value from property taxes for public schools. The change would lower property taxes on the average home by about $950 a year, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Rep. James Kreuser (D-Kenosha) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}