Evers and His Judicial Accomplices Shackle Wisconsin Taxpayers for 400 Years
Reading James Freeman’s April 18 WSJ column, "Progressive Court Allows a ‘Vanna White’ Veto,” I was outraged to learn that Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers and his judicial enablers—Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Jill Karofsky, Rebecca Dallet, Ann Walsh Bradley, and Janet Protasiewicz—have unleashed a disgraceful fiscal monstrosity on Wisconsin taxpayers, courtesy of a state Supreme Court ruling that greenlights a 400-year school funding increase. Evers, a bureaucrat playing emperor, mutilated a bill with his veto pen, stretching a $325 per-student revenue hike to 2425 by—get this—taking a bill meant for 2023-24 and 2024-25 and striking the “20” and hyphen to extend it to 2425.
Before Evers' Change (as passed by the Legislature):
“For the limit for the 2023–24 school year and the 2024–25 school year, add $325 to the result under par."
(This language meant the $325 per-pupil revenue limit increase would apply only to the 2023–24 and 2024–25 school years.)
After Evers' Partial "Veto "(as enacted):
Evers used his partial veto to strike the digits “20” and the hyphen from “2024–25,” changing it to “2425.” This altered the text to:
“For the limit for the 2023–2425 school year, add $325 to the result under par.”
As a result, the $325 increase now applies from the 2023 school year through the year 2425—a 400-year extension(!) His four judicial sidekicks trampled the 1990 amendment banning “Vanna White” vetoes to declare this travesty constitutional. This is disgraceful and unacceptable. And it sure isn’t policy; it’s a taxpayer mugging, obligating unborn generations to a burden they’ll despise us for tolerating it.
Evers and his judicial squad have disrespected Wisconsin’s constitution, crowning the governor a fiscal tyrant who can forge laws from legislative scraps. This ruling spits in the face of every small business owner and taxpayer already crushed by the state’s greedy paws. It cements revenue hikes that’ll strangle budgets, kill economic liberty, and bury future Wisconsites under a 400-year fiscal guillotine. The dissent, led by Justices Hagedorn, Ziegler, and Grassl Bradley, rightly branded this a “monarchical” coup, but Evers’ lackeys just sneered, too busy basking in their activist glory to heed the taxpayers they’ve doomed. This is government overreach so vile it makes your skin crawl.
Astonishingly, the legislature is just sitting there, twiddling their thumbs, while Evers and his judicial cronies rob taxpayers blind for four centuries? They have expressed outrage but have been ineffective to fight back, constrained by political divisions and procedural hurdles. I’m absolutely floored. Where’s the battle plan to crush this tyranny? It’s beyond comprehension that state Republicans aren’t storming the Capitol, drafting amendments, and rallying the public to obliterate this veto loophole and dethrone these power-drunk justices. This isn’t just a failure; it’s a betrayal so gut-wrenching it screams for action. Wisconsinites should flood the streets, demand accountability, and force the legislature to grow a spine. Wake up, lawmakers—fight back or get out!