Act 10 turned 15 years old; will it turn 16?

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin may have just celebrated the last anniversary for Act-10.

Act-10 became law in 2011, changing how many public sector workers, particularly teachers, could negotiate contracts.

The MacIver Institute said Act 10 has saved taxpayers in Wisconsin more than $35 billion during the past decade-and-a-half. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court appears poised to strike the law down.

Will Flanders with the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty believes if the court does, all $35 billion of those savings will disappear.

“The best hope is to convey just how devastating this will be to school districts, to local governments, and to taxpayers across the state if [Act-10] goes away,” Flanders said in an interview on News Talk 1130 WISN. “[Those] $35 billion in savings, that’s immediately going back on to the property rolls, at least a lot of it will immediately go back on the property tax rolls.”

Flanders said it will take a few years for some of the savings to be erased because schools and local ...