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Article: Transit backers try a new tack; Sales tax proposal for train line revamped
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2007
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With a key vote approaching Tuesday on a regional transportation
sales tax, public transit advocates are trying to rally support by
packaging the idea as a way to cut property taxes and to shift the
cost of a new commuter rail line to tourists.
Part of that approach could include reducing the proposed sales
tax from 0.5% to 0.25% - 25 cents on a $100 purchase - to pay for
the new train line linking Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha and the
southern suburbs, and to take public buses off the property tax,
Racine Mayor Gary Becker said.
The Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Transit Authority is to
consider asking the Legislature to authorize a three-county sales
tax for trains and buses Tuesday. Other ...