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Related: About this forumWalker hikes electricity rates on homeowners to subsidize Big Business
MILWAUKEE Big energy users in Wisconsin are getting breaks on rate increases at the expense of other businesses and homeowners.
The move is meant to foster Gov. Scott Walkers job creation goals, Phil Montgomery, chairman of the Public Service Commission, told a Wisconsin newspaper.
Is it by design? Yes. We believe it helps in job creation, said Montgomery, a Republican former state representative from the Green Bay area who is one of two Walker appointees on the three-member panel that regulates utility rates in Wisconsin.
Its been a goal of this governor to help every way we can in job growth and creation, and we viewed that, in the setting of the rates, that if we can come up with a fair mix for all that helps job creators, then thats a good thing, Montgomery said.
For example, We Energies was granted an overall electricity rate increase of 4.2 percent for 2013, but large companies got only a 3% boost while homeowners and small businesses got rate increases of at least 5 percent.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/viewart/20130114/GPG0101/301140236/Big-Wisconsin-energy-users-get-rate-hike-breaks
The move is meant to foster Gov. Scott Walkers job creation goals, Phil Montgomery, chairman of the Public Service Commission, told a Wisconsin newspaper.
Is it by design? Yes. We believe it helps in job creation, said Montgomery, a Republican former state representative from the Green Bay area who is one of two Walker appointees on the three-member panel that regulates utility rates in Wisconsin.
Its been a goal of this governor to help every way we can in job growth and creation, and we viewed that, in the setting of the rates, that if we can come up with a fair mix for all that helps job creators, then thats a good thing, Montgomery said.
For example, We Energies was granted an overall electricity rate increase of 4.2 percent for 2013, but large companies got only a 3% boost while homeowners and small businesses got rate increases of at least 5 percent.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/viewart/20130114/GPG0101/301140236/Big-Wisconsin-energy-users-get-rate-hike-breaks
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Walker hikes electricity rates on homeowners to subsidize Big Business (Original Post)
Viking12
Jan 2013
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)1. What a crock this line is:
Its been a goal of this governor to help every way we can in job growth and creation"
If that is his goal, or always was his goal, why do we rank 42nd in job creation??
Viking12
(6,012 posts)2. Because he hasn't given enough of our money to his donors yet...
Tempest
(14,591 posts)3. Taking money out of the hands of consumers doesn't create jobs
Apparently Walker has learned nothing from the recession.
upaloopa
(11,417 posts)4. So when are the folks in WI going to stop
assuming the position?
lutefisk
(3,974 posts)6. It's not like we aren't fighting back...
fredamae
(4,458 posts)5. Didn't the Walker sell the Koch boys
Utilities etc?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)7. Fattenning the wallets of corporate investors in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo ...
... at the expense of Wisconsin's citizens. Thanks a bunch Squat.