Wisconsin Pension System Referendum, Question 1 (April 1934)

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The Wisconsin Pension System Referendum was a Wisconsin referendum / advisory question on the April 3, 1934 ballot in Wisconsin, where it was approved.

• This referendum sought the people's opinion on whether to create a state pension system.

Election results

Question 1
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		531,915	77.47%
No		154,729	22.53%

Official results via: The Wisconsin Blue Book 1935

Text of measure

The language that appeared on the ballot:

"Shall an old-age pension system be adopted whereby pensions shall be payable to those attaining sixty years of age or more and financed by levying a surtax on incomes of fifteen thousand and over or by a tax on labor saving machinery, or in some manner by which the major portion necessary to finance such old-age pension shall be raised other than by a tax on general property?"

Path to the ballot

• Legislative Approval: AJR 42 & JR 64 (1933 Special Session)

See also

Suggest a link

• 1934 ballot measures
• Wisconsin 1934 ballot measures
• List of Wisconsin ballot measures

External links

• The Wisconsin Blue Book 1935
• Sample ballot in The Milwaukee Sentinel, April 2, 1934