School funding. Provide public schools with $150 more per student in state aid and local property taxes this fall and another $150 increase in 2014-’15, for a total of $289 million over two years. However, because of the $50 one-time per-pupil bump to many districts in this past school year, the proposed $150 per pupil funding increase in 2013-’14 would represent a $100 per-pupil increase this fall over current spending.
Health care. Shift nearly 90,000 people from the BadgerCare Plus program into a new online insurance marketplace, where the participants are supposed to find replacement health coverage. A detailed analysis of the plan by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau found that many of the people now receiving BadgerCare Plus coverage through Medicaid likely would not buy the more expensive insurance through the marketplaces.
In doing so, Republicans are passing up a federal offer to cover 84,700 more people in Medicaid than their plan and receive enough additional federal tax money over the next two years to pad the state budget by $119 million even after covering the cost of those additional people, according to the Fiscal Bureau.
Walker has said he wants fewer people on government coverage and is concerned that the federal government won’t keep its commitment to the higher Medicaid funds over the long term.
Residency. Repeal all residency rules for teachers and other workers for local units of government with one exception: Local officials could still require police, fire or emergency personnel to live within 15 miles of the boundaries of their jurisdictions.
Bail bonds. Allow for-profit bail bondsmen in Wisconsin for the first time since 1979, with judges able to opt out of the system. The program would be limited for the first five years to Milwaukee, Waukesha, Kenosha, Racine and Dane counties.
State property. Allow the Walker administration to sell state assets including parking garages, university dormitories and roads.
“Residency. Repeal all residency rules for teachers and other workers for local units of government with one exception: Local officials could still require police, fire or emergency personnel to live within 15 miles of the boundaries of their jurisdictions.”
I have friends in Milwaukee county who are VERY happy about this.
“State property. Allow the Walker administration to sell state assets including parking garages, university dormitories and roads.”
I’m for this. We SHOULD be liquidating things that COST US TAX DOLLARS and add no value to our bottom line. In Dane County ALONE he should sell off hundreds if not thousands of acres of SWAMPLAND that Ex-County Exec Kathleen Falk bought to stop from development. IT WAS LAND NO ONE WANTED TO DEVELOP TO BEGIN WITH!
Grrrr!
But, we’re getting somewhere, at least. And watching Liberal heads explode in this town is just fun, fun, FUN! :)