Republican state senator Dan Feyen says a Senate Republican budget proposal cuts taxes and pays for roads and public education . The senate plan calls for an additional $712 million in additional borrowing to pay for roads. Assembly Republicans said last week they agreed to an offer from the governor to use $200 million originally planned for an income tax cut to pay for roads. But senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald said Senate Republicans want to reduce or eliminate the personal property tax. The senate budget gives public schools $650 million in additional aid compared to an Assembly Republican plan that calls for less aid but would allow local districts to raise taxes to make up the difference. “In Fond du Lac and Oshkosh and I believe every school district in my (senate) district, it would have been a major tax increase if they would go to the full cap, and I mean a major tax increase,” Feyen told WFDL news.
