Cavalier Johnson: “Without the sales tax, Milwaukee would have become…”

“But I should tell folks, remind folks here, because I know we had a lot of community conversations around the sales tax some years ago. Without the sales tax, Milwaukee would have become insolvent. We would have basically been the next Detroit if that. If that had happened. And there are severe consequences that would have followed from that if we did not take that action.” (21:07–21:12)

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