Quote (thesnipa @ May 15 2020 10:43am)
Milwaukee politics is a cess pool. Politicians live in Nicolet, Brookfield, Mequan, Muskego, etc. They make county wide tax policy that goes something like this:
we take 5% of all the profits in the county, then each district gets an equal share. and they know Nicolet is already ahead, the roads are already in good shape, the kids already have a good starting education from private daycares, the houses are already nice. etc. so the districts that need a bigger share dont get it, they get the same size slice of the pie even tho it needs to feed 2x more people, fix 2x more problems, etc.
and poor milwaukee residents keep voting them in, because they hear higher taxes and schools get more and think its great.
construction crews patching 50 year old roads with asphalt because that's all that's in the budget meanwhile north puts in new bypasses and the city pays 2x the real cost to get people to Miller park and pays cops to facilitate traffic for every game.
the whole city is a fucking mess, i'd rather move to the border of the UP than within 30 miles of that city.
yea pretty much unless you live on Lake Drive or in some posh building downtown, Milwaukee really rakes you over the coals for what your cost of living expenses are compared to other cities in the state.