If Tony Evers were running
for election in November,
and he said, this is my big
bill, Democrats.
This is what
I want to run on.
I mean,
they would have voted.
They would have voted yes.
No.
Republicans
probably wouldn't
have brought it
up in that case.
So, you know, it's a it's
a theoretical exercise.
But but Senate Democrats
I'm confident
would have been with him.
He is not on the ballot
though this November,
as Diane Hesselbein noted.
And Senate
Democrats are poised to
they think
take that majority.
Well.
And don't forget
there is another factor
when it comes to everyone
looking at the next budget
in the next year.
And that is
there's a lot of people
who think
we may be looking
into a recession. Yeah.
So most of this surplus
is a projection of what
the economy
is going to bring in
for tax revenues.
If there's an
economic downturn
in the next six months,
that money disappears
all by itself
without having been sent out.
So you send it out,
even though
most of this is one time
spending, it may not be there
next year.
Now, they say even
in the worst
of circumstances, at least,
the state will have
a little bit money
to start the next year with.
So that is a
legitimate concern
considering where
gas prices
and grocery
prices are right now,
and with no end
to a war in Iran
that the economy could shift
and go down.
And these tax revenues
may not materialize.