Darling's Perpetual Double Taxing Milwaukee Residents

Alberta Darling is trying to gain traction with trying to hit Wasserman on his tax stance, all the while ignoring her own violations of the same tax pledge that she also signed.

Somehow, everyone is also ignoring the fact that Alberta Darling is also responsible for Milwaukee County residents being double taxed.

I've mentioned a long time ago, in a blog not so far away, that Alberta Darling was one of the chief authors of the state takeover of the Milwaukee County child welfare system. When the state took over, the tax money that went to the system increased by tens of millions of dollars, but services to the children and their families were cut.

Where did the money go? Well, in 1998, the agencies involved in child welfare in Milwaukee included the State, the County, and five private agencies. That is a lot of administration costs that soaked up the dollars for it. Since that time, the county was kicked out and have no say whatsoever to what happens to the children in the county. Meanwhile, some of the private agencies folded, new ones were created, and mergers happened. All the while soaking up money for administrative duties, and not for the kids themselves.

Now, Milwaukee County residents pay state taxes to support the system, and then lose more than $20 million in share revenues to help pay for the system again. Darling sits on the oversight committee, but has done nothing to correct the problems that she acknowledge exists.

Obviously, Darling doesn't really care about the taxpayers or the kids in Milwaukee County. Unless they can work as her caddy that is.