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Article: Doyle defends rise in business taxes Proposed budget won't cut education, health care, governor tells consortium
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 6, 2009
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Gov. Jim Doyle defended a raft of business tax increases in his
latest budget proposal Thursday, saying he refuses to allow steep
cuts in state educational, university, police and health care
programs.
"I'm not prepared to cut the schools and cut the universities,"
Doyle told the quarterly meeting of the Milwaukee 7 economic
development consortium.
Civic and business leaders packed an auditorium at Manpower
Inc.'s headquarters downtown to hear the governor whose tax
proposals last month drew protests from executives and trade
associations. Evoking the greatest ire was the "combined reporting"
tax passed by the Democrat-controlled Legislature and signed by
Doyle four days later as part of a ...