PolitiFact says,
By law, Wisconsin’s two-year budgets must be balanced -- revenue equalling expenditures.
So, unlike the federal government, Wisconsin can never run an actual budget deficit by borrowing money that piles up as debt.
It wasn’t long ago that the forecasting arm of the Wisconsin legislature was predicting that state government by mid-2015 would be flush with a surplus topping $1 billion, which Gov. Scott Walker could have showcased in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. Today, that projected surplus has morphed into a $2.2 billion budget deficit that Republican lawmakers are struggling to fix.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/07/27/is-donald-trump-right-about-what-gov-scott-walker-did-to-wisconsin-schools
And we passed a balanced budget that still cut taxes AGAIN. That PROJECTED deficit was a study run by the liberals before the budget process, you know, actually produced a balanced budget without raising taxes.
OMG we have to go through that again?
2.2 Billion was an unconstrained budget projection by all the departments. By definition it included ZERO revenue growth. We had a projected budget process and the legislature passed, per the Constitution, a BALANCED budget. The borrowing in that budget the smallest in DECADES.
You know many states don’t even do a budget forecast in this manner? It just leads to crackpot accusations like this.
In the last budget (which began with an EVEN LARGER FORECAST DEFICITI) Walker reduced debt, gave a massive TAX CUT and still ended with a surplus.
Thanks for informing us what the liberal Washington Post is spouting against Walker.
That explains why the commercial hasn’t been made.