MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the leaders of the Legislature’s finance committee says his colleagues are pondering imposing a new tax on new bike sales. Rep. John Nygren, a Marinette Republican, is co-chairman of the committee. He told said Thursday that Republicans on the panel are looking into inserting language in Gov. Scott Walker’s two-year budget plan that would create a tax on the sales of new bikes with wheels larger than 20 inches. The money would fund bike path construction. He said the tax could generate as much as $1.8 million in the budget’s first year and $3.8 million in the second. Nygren says it’s just an idea right now and there’s a less than 50 percent chance it will actually happen.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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