WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — Governor Scott Walker made a stop in Wausau on Thursday afternoon at Mills Fleet Farm. The governor was promoting the child tax rebate site, which just went live on Tuesday.
Gov. Walker says things have been going well so far as of 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon.
“As of the updates I get every hour, so just before I came in in the last hour we were just shy of 200,000 rebates that have already been claimed just since we first opened up things on Tuesday,” he said.
Families who have children under 18-years-old living at home have until July 2nd to go to childtaxrebate.WI.gov and sign up for the rebate. The $100 rebate will either be mailed out as a check or directly deposited into their bank account.
There has been some pushback about the tax rebate and people wondering if that money could’ve been used for road funding. Gov. Walker says if anything people are going to upset when they see so many crews out working this summer.
Walker said, “Because we put some of the biggest increases in local road aid in nearly 20 years to fix county and municipal roads, bridges, and fill pot holes along the way.”
Gov. Walker also says he’s done more for transportation funding for the state than his predecessor, Jim Doyle, had done in the same amount of time.
The governor was also promoting a back to school state sales tax holiday happening later this summer. The holiday will be running the first week of August from the 1st through the 5th. Gov. Walker says this sales tax holiday will be a win win for families and businesses across the state.
“It’s a nice way for us to help fuel the local economy and to help fuel companies big and small that have operations physically in the state of Wisconsin. Stores like this across the state, it’s one more way to get people in our stores right before kids go back to school,” said Walker.
The governor was also touting Wisconsin’s lowest ever unemployment rate of 2.8%.
