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John Leiber: “Every other loan through the municipal loan program gives it…”

Featuring: John Leiber, Republican | Wisconsin Treasurer

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Leiber warns Sanborn could be canary in the coal mine on tribal member property tax issue

Published | Video Starts at 06:19

That's the people we give the money out to, the school, libraries. So that, that's my concern. I just want to make sure we're giving it a loan because Every other loan through the municipal loan program gives it out to a... county or a town or city, we're pretty much guaranteed to get that money back because they have a sustainable tax base. Their boundaries aren't really changing in the way that Sanborns are, and they're not having huge portions of their town take off the tax rolls. And that's really the concern here. (06:19–06:32)

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Asserts that loans are typically repaid due to a sustainable tax base in other municipalities.

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