There's been a lot of dust raised over the Waukesha County budget presented by Dan Vrakas, the County Executive. (Linked above is the summary.)
He increases the tax levy by ~2%.
Vrakas, in his summary, makes the case that the County is very efficiently run and that its prop-tax burden is light.
OK.
There are other factors, among them that Waukesha County does not have its own sales tax--unlike the County immediately to its east, e.g.
And Vrakas mentions that the State imposed more "unfunded liabilities" on the County this year, forcing revenue-raising to the County level.
OK.
But leaders don't settle.
I think it was Belling who suggested that Vrakas could have found $1 million someplace and thus have presented a ZERO tax-increase budget. That might have been a challenge, and I suppose it's possible that Vrakas tried and simply could not find the million bucks.
But he's spending $267 million, meaning that all he had to find was one-half of one percent.
Is it that difficult?
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