Wisconsin Democrats want 100 percent tax on Trump 'Anti-Weaponization' fund payouts
Wisconsin Democrats want 100 percent tax on Trump 'Anti-Weaponization' fund payouts
Wisconsin Democrats want 100 percent tax on Trump 'Anti-Weaponization' fund payouts
Wisconsin Democrats are pushing for a 100 percent tax on any payments from President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization" fund for those he claims were persecuted by previous administrations.
On Wednesday, Wisconsin Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein, D-Middleton, announced she’ll be introducing a bill titled the “No Taxpayer Dollars for Insurrectionists Act” that would create a 100 percent income tax for any payments from the federal “slush fund.”
In an interview with WPR, Hesselbein said it can feel like people in Wisconsin are powerless to stop Trump’s “chaos and confusion” coming from Washington D.C.
“There is no reason why we should be giving any money to these people that were doing the wrong thing, especially when we have real problems in the state of Wisconsin, when people are struggling with gas and groceries and rising costs,” said Hesselbein. “That’s the thing that we need to be thinking about, not what happened in 2021 and how devastating it was, and how awful.”
In a social media post Tuesday, conservative WISN-AM radio host Vicki McKenna shared screenshots of a letter in which she said retired Wisconsin judge and 2020 Trump attorney Jim Troupis asked Blanche for $3.2 million from the fund. In the screenshot, Troupis says the money would cover ongoing legal costs and damage to his reputation from federal and state investigations into his role in a false elector scheme aimed at overturning Trump’s 2020 loss to former President Joe Biden.
A spokesperson for Troupis did not return emails from WPR seeking to confirm the request.