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AP: (very long article) Scott Walker's Wisconsin budget shows his conservative ideals"....He's already cut income and corporate taxes by nearly $2 billion, lowered property taxes, legalized the carrying of concealed weapons, made abortions more difficult to obtain, required photo identification when voting and expanded the state's private school voucher school program.
And now this year, the first of his second term, he's going even farther by proposing a $300 million, or 13 percent, cut in state money for the University of Wisconsin and freezing tuition there for two years while granting it more independence from state laws.
His budget would lower property taxes $5 on average each of the next two years for median-valued homes. However, that comes at the expense of public schools, which would face a $135-per student loss in state aid.
He wants to get government out of the business of regulating for-profit colleges, eliminating a board that oversees them. He's also proposing to eliminate 66 science and education positions at the Department of Natural Resources, in the name of efficiency, but leading to charges that the move will increasingly politicize the agency.
His budget also would require people seeking public benefits to pass a drug test, which Walker says would help prepare them for the workforce.
Such moves will play well with conservatives nationally, said Brian Fraley, a longtime conservative activist in Wisconsin.
Fraley summed up the priorities conservatives see fulfilled in Walker's budget: "Spend less. Trim the number of state employees. Tax less."
But for all of that, he's got a tough road ahead with Republican lawmakers, not to mention Democrats, before the Legislature passes a budget sometime in June.".....
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Now, HERE ARE THE DETAILS:
Scott Walker's 2015-17 Budget Proposal: What You Need to Know - and SHOULD!