# Public school funding in Wisconsin to increase until the year 2425

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664 "2023-07-05T19:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664/21 "2023-07-08T00:38:47Z")

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> [@Lord\_Feldon](#):
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> There was a constitutional amendment to take away the governor’s power to delete _letters_. And another one to provide that deletions can only occur _within_ a sentence. This veto only affects whole words, numerals, and punctuation marks within a single sentence.

Laws regarding Firetrucks are safe, then.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664/22 "2023-07-08T02:19:10Z")

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I thought this nuts and outrageous, too, until I read this story that explained the history and what other governors have done.

> **[Wisconsin governor's 400-year veto angers opponents in state with long...](https://apnews.com/article/evers-veto-400-years-wisconsin-school-funding-67a7847e4a24ea86f7d16123356f770d)**
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> Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ partial veto that attempts to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years drew outrage and surprise from his political opponents.

I still find it nuts and outrageous. But if that’s the way they play the game in Wisconsin, the right has to learn that it can played against them. Maybe they’ll all get together to ban this nonsense in the future.

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664/23 "2023-07-08T20:48:40Z")

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On the whole I’m happy that the absurdity of this kind of “Frankenstein” veto has been exposed in a fairly harmless way.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2023, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-school-funding-in-wisconsin-to-increase-until-the-year-2425/986664/24 "2023-07-08T21:02:25Z")

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This in particular seem relovent:

> Former Republican Gov. Scott Walker in 2017 used his veto power to extend the deadline of a state program from 2018 to 3018. That came to be known as the “thousand-year veto.” He also delayed the start date of another program by 60 years.

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