Earlier this year, officials with the Milwaukee County Transit System sprung an unpleasant surprise by announcing that they had a deficit of over $9 million dollars. Officials stated that the deficit was caused by things like overtime costs and a sudden increase in parts. (Thanks for nothing, Tariffman!) They also reported that $4 million was due to fare evasion.

Rep Lyin' Bryan Steil jumped into action by sending letters to Transportation Secretary Sean Crash Dummy Duffy and other DOT officials asking them to provide oversight of the Milwaukee County System. He didn't bother to contact transit system officials to see what the problem was or what they were doing to resolve it. His knee jerk reaction was to be a jerk and just get the feds involved.

The reason for the high fare evasion cos

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