AJR79: Joint Resolution Text

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2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE

2011 Assembly JOINT RESOLUTION 79

December 2, 2011 - Introduced by Representatives E. Coggs, Young, Sinicki, Pocan, Berceau, Roys, C. Taylor and Staskunas, cosponsored by Senators S. Coggs and Taylor. Referred to Committee on Assembly Organization.

AJR79,1,2 Relating to: expression of support by members of the Wisconsin assembly for the American Jobs Act.

AJR79,1,4 Whereas, the American Jobs Act requires immediate passage to strengthen the economy and protect Wisconsin's middle class; and

AJR79,1,5 Whereas, the plan would go into effect immediately and would create jobs; and

AJR79,1,7 Whereas, President Obama's bill will cut the payroll tax in half to 3.1 percent for about 98 percent of businesses in the country; and

AJR79,1,9 Whereas, in Wisconsin, some 110,000 businesses would receive a payroll tax reduction under the American Jobs Act; and

AJR79,1,11 Whereas, a typical Wisconsin household with a median income of about $51,000 would receive a tax cut of about $1,580; and

AJR79,1,14 Whereas, the president's plan includes $50 billion in immediate investments for our crumbling highways, transit rail, and aviation infrastructure, helping make the United States competitive in the 21st century economy; and

AJR79,2,2 Whereas, infrastructure investments in Wisconsin of approximately $575.4 million would lead to an estimated 7,500 local jobs; and

AJR79,2,4 Whereas, the plan also would include $35 billion in education investments that will create 21st century jobs; and

AJR79,2,6 Whereas, in Wisconsin this means $368.7 million in funding to support as many as 4,800 teaching jobs; and

AJR79,2,10 Whereas, the president is also proposing $15 billion in an effort to rehabilitate hundreds of thousands of vacant and foreclosed homes and businesses, which could result in Wisconsin receiving more than $27.4 million that would support hundreds of jobs; and

AJR79,2,13 Whereas, as part of $5 billion in investments to modernize community colleges, Wisconsin could receive $79.9 million in funding for the state's strapped community college system; and

AJR79,2,16 Whereas, the president's plan would include new funding to ensure that 58,100 job seekers in Wisconsin would not lose their unemployment insurance in just the first six weeks of the bill's passage; and

AJR79,2,19 Whereas, the benefits to Wisconsin, which faces an unemployment crisis, are many—which is why the bill requires immediate passage and should not fall prey to partisanship; now, therefore, be it

AJR79,2,21 Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the members of the Wisconsin assembly hereby express support for the American Jobs Act.

AJR79,2,22 (End)