The Cato Institute has released its 2010 Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors, and Wisconsin fares poorly in the report. I’ve be a sometime critic of the outgoing Doyle Administration’s policies, but candidly, his Republican predecessors (Thompson, McCallum) left the state’s finances in poor condition, too. The return of a Republican to the governor’s mansion would offer no assurance of meaningful improvement. See, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Next Wisconsin Governor Faces Big Deficit.
Cato describes Wisconsin’s predicament as among the worst in America. A Wisconsin problem is an acute local problem for any small town that depends heavily, as Whitewater does, on state support.
The full document appears below.
Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Governors: 2010, Cato Policy Analysis No. 668