The assembly republican plan to freeze property taxes in Wisconsin is causing a firestorm of opposition from local governments and schools.
As the clamor against it rises, the legislature’s republican-held joint finance committee is trying to work such a freeze into its budget.
But from all appearances, assembly and senate republicans cannot agree on how to do it. Frederica Freyberg reports.
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