Aglaopheme
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Wisconsin has a biannual budget.
Every two years since Scott Walker has become Governor, the press has breathlessly run stories of how his cutting taxes but devoting more money to things like education and transportation would lead Wisconsin to a deficit. Nevertheless, every budget under Walker has balanced and led to a surplus.
Here's a report about this I think you will all appreciate!
This is just more of the same. Again, the press claims there's going to be a deficit, then a balanced budget will pass, and in the end there will be a surplus.
If, at the end of the current budget cycle, I am wrong, I here publicly promise I will devote a thread to my shame. Please, mark that down and hold me to it.
(You see, Dan, I'm willing to stand by what I write here and accept the consequences if I'm wrong. Meanwhile, there's this.)
This is also a load. The article Dam posted is correct, it's a numbers game, and it was the same last election cycle.
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...walker-says-next-state-budget-will-begin-535/
Poor Scotty's schtick didn't fly under national scrutiny.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...lker-wisconsin-budget-met-20150626-story.html
It wasn't long ago that the forecasting arm of the Wisconsin legislature was predicting that state government by mid-2015 would be flush with a surplus topping $1 billion, which Gov. Scott Walker could have showcased in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Today, that projected surplus has morphed into a $2.2 billion budget deficit that Republican lawmakers are struggling to fix. Sharp divisions between Walker and legislators about how to solve the problem have complicated his plans for formally entering the already crowded field of GOP presidential hopefuls. When he does, his financial stewardship may prove more political vulnerability than bragging point.
Please tell me where the press was breathlessly running stories about Walker giving
more money to education until very recently?
2011
ASHWAUBENON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker signed his first budget Sunday, a plan that plugs the state's $3 billion shortfall but also slashes funding for public schools and the University of Wisconsin System.
2013
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin...walker-cut-school-funding-more-any-governor-/* slashes $250 million from the University of Wisconsin, one of the country’s great public institutions of higher education, and ensures that most K-12 school districts will get less funding than they did last year;