The Wisconsin Biennial budget is on its way to the governor. So what do you think: do you favor or oppose?
See, Senate sends budget to Walker for signature, but effects already being felt and Senate OK’d budget goes to Walker:
Aside from changes to the school voucher program, the state budget approved Thursday by the Legislature also includes provisions that would:
- Put tight limits on property taxes.
- Cut school funding by almost $800 million.
- Require local governments to make employer contributions to match the new pension contributions being required of public workers, which in the case of state workers are equal to 5.8% of their salaries.
- Loosen restrictions on payday loans.
- Let bail bondsmen set up shop in Wisconsin.
Previous proposals that were removed from the bill include:
- A plan that would have made it harder for owners of land sitting in the way of a highway or power line project to challenge a government takeover of their property.
- A proposal for $2 million in state borrowing for improvements at Milwaukee’s National Soldiers Home.
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This was not a budget. It was a war on the middle class and poor.
…sad to see our State motto has become “Wisconsin: Backward.” The FitzWalkers and GOP have put the Badger State in the Wayback Machine. Shame! We’re trapped in a time/space anomoly that has hurled us bacward to 1951. Shame.
This budget spends in the wrong places, and it cuts back in the wrong places. That’s the biggest problem. A much smaller issue is that this is what people may think a libertarian budget should look like. No! Count me opposed.