[Dr. Sivana]

The Wisconsin budget deficit is not looking good either.

Walker inherited a $3 billion deficit courtesy of outgoing Dem Jim Doyle. He turned that around into a surplus within one year, which he in part returned to the taxpayers in the form of state income tax refunds and property tax relief, and in part as local property tax relief. The WEDC funding all told was just shy of $200 million dollars, or one 15th of the Doyle deficit.

Individual counties and municipalities (except Milwaukee and Madison who signed union extensions before Act 10 kicked in) also saved big money. Walker has been dealing with the deficit by cutting spending in the right places (U of Wisc system), and NOT increasing taxes.

Since you don't want to have government spend money through a business subsidy system, what else should he do besides hold the line of taxes and cut spending and sign off on Right to Work?

By the way, Wisconsin's unemployment rate is 4.4% as of April, 2015 ( http://www.bls.gov/eag/eag.wi.htm ). Since Wisconsin did not go as far in the tank during unemployment, there is not as many jobs to restore during a recovery. For comparison, Illinois is at 6%, Michigan at 5.4%, Indiana at 5.4% and Minnesota at 3.7%.

[Osage Orange]

God forbid...you give this tag team real numbers.

Thanks!

[conservativejoy]

The point is Wisconsin is still 50th in new businesses, 40th in job creation, still having jobs shipped overseas. Just saw another article on that this week.

Good luck selling that as a good record on jobs. Sheesh!