Without Walker and the Republicans’ budgets, fixing 8 years of Doyle’s stealing from protected funds and obscenely generous handouts to state union workers (for votes), we’d be in the same situation as Illinois (and Minnesota).
You want to draw a distinction as to how conservatives and liberals deal with economic problems? Just compare Wisconsin and Illinois. Wisconsin conservatives take a state 3.6 billion in debt from DEMOCRATS, pay back our Minnesota debt in the tens of millions, and come out with a projected 300 million surplus, without raising taxes or cutting a single state worker. Illinois libs who’ve been running that state into the ground for decades, thier plan is to massively raise taxes on individuals AND businesses, continue to BORROW billions of dollars leaving taxpayers on the hook in the future for that debt and interest, and also cut thousands of state workers.
That’s the difference. Conservatives - actually make budget changes, pay our debts off, and require state workers to pay for just a small part of their lavish benefits. Liberals - cut workers, raise your taxes, borrow even more money.
Long term, guess which solution makes a hell of a lot more sense?
And I should add, what did it get each states’ governors?
In Wisconsin, where no freaking liberal state union worker got cut, it gets him set up for recall (which will fail).
In Illinois, where a ton of state union workers are cut, and the state is up to its adam’s apple in debt and taxes, not a peep about recalling/removing their democrat governor.
Good points all. I’d say that makes a powerful case for keeping Governor Walker our Governor. Wouldn’t you? ;-)