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A glance at the state budget

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Here's a summary of budget vetoes issued today by Governor Doyle: FREE SHOTS: Free shots of liquor won't be allowed at grocery stores. Doyle vetoed a provision added to the budget late in negotiations, calling it absurd. Free wine and beer samples continue to be legal. WINE DISTRIBUTION: A new wine distribution system that small Wisconsin wineries complained would hurt their business got vetoed. Doyle said the new system wasn't well thought-out. PROPERTY TAXES: Doyle loosened property tax limits on local governments from 2 percent this year to 3.86 percent, largely because the budget passed so late and governments were already close to completing their budgets. A 2 percent cap in place the past two years expired in January. In 2008, the limit will be 2 percent. TECHNICAL COLLEGES: A new 4 percent cap on property tax levy increases by technical colleges was eliminated. Doyle said imposing limits on them would result in higher costs for students or fewer course offerings. He says the limits would hurt technical colleges' ability to help the state's economy. CHRONIC WASTING: Doyle allowed the state Department of Natural Resources to ask the Legislature for more money to fight chronic wasting disease. The budget state lawmakers passed cut $2.1 million from the agency's CWD funding and limited how much money from the state's conservation fund could be used to combat the disease. VERY FEW: Doyle says his vetoes were the fewest made by a governor in the past 35 years. Most of them were largely technical. One major reason was Doyle worked closely with lawmakers on a budget deal, so there were few surprises in the four month late agreement. OVERRIDES: It takes two-thirds of the Senate and Assembly to override a veto. But because so few were made, and most were either expected or non-controversial, no overrides are expected.