MADISON, WI (WTAQ) – Two Republican state lawmakers unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to fight poverty in Milwaukee’s central city.
Assembly Republican Dale Kooyenga of Brookfield and Senate GOP finance chair Alberta Darling of River Hills offered a package of special rules and exemptions for inner city neighborhoods and business zones.
Among other things, it would eliminate the corporate income tax for companies that operate in urban zones — a localized right to work provision in which businesses in the urban zones could not force workers to pay union dues — allow limited liability firms that could be more flexible in serving their distressed communities — and state incentives for groups to help newly-released prisoners avoid committing new crimes.
Kooyenga said all the measures sought to avoid long-term financial impacts on an already tight state budget. He said people in low income neighborhoods are especially hurting.
Darling said their proposed agenda would invite new people to try new approaches in Milwaukee, one of the nation’s most impoverished big cities.
(Story courtesy of Wheeler News Service)
