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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.

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260528125348/https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-democrats-100-percent-tax-trump-anti-weaponization-fund

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[–] homes@piefed.world 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

New York State has proposed a similar bill, lol

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah, someone else mentioned that, and that comment got way more upvotes. Which I thought was… Cute?

It’s not a competition, I just thought it was kind of funny

Anyway, I hope that, over the next couple of days, every state proposes, a bill as such!

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Eh, serves me right for replying from my inbox instead of checking the thread first to see if someone else had said the exact same thing 15 minutes before I did

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago

Apparently, and quite fortunately, it seems to be going around.

I’m not much of a trendy person, but this is a trend that I can definitely get behind!