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Cutting taxes for the rich and for Wal-Mart creates a deficit. Walker is paying for the cuts with the jobs of teachers and all other public workers in the future by trying to silence them. Good strategy.
I can't wait until Walker is up for reelection. He probably will have to just resign and let another Republican run for him because he is already damaged goods.
LOL.
Take a look around the US. Wisconsin is not the only state doing this.
Take a look around the US. Wisconsin is not the only state doing this.
I know. There are many new Republican governors doing the same thing. Cutting taxes for their supporters and benefactors and then using the excuse of the deficit to layoff middle class workers.
I know. There are many new Republican governors doing the same thing. Cutting taxes for their supporters and benefactors and then using the excuse of the deficit to layoff middle class workers.
November 2014 is coming.
So you don't believe there are any deficits in any states ?
What about at the Fed level..no deficits there either ?
You think "no money" is just a ploy ?
Didn't Obama sign those Bush cuts extension ?
Didn't Obama ADD the payroll tax decrease ?
Can you see that the Dems are just as much to blame, if not more because they had the power for 2 years, for the state of our country ?
So you don't believe there are any deficits in any states ?
What about at the Fed level..no deficits there either ?
You think "no money" is just a ploy ?
Didn't Obama sign those Bush cuts extension ?
Didn't Obama ADD the payroll tax decrease ?
Can you see that the Dems are just as much to blame, if not more because they had the power for 2 years, for the state of our country ?
When you cut taxes for the rich, it creates a deficit. Wisconsin didn't have a deficit until Walker cut taxes for the richest and most powerful in his state. Now he is using his own actions as a reason for having to cut middle class workers.
Wisconsin didn't have a deficit until Walker cut taxes for the richest and most powerful in his state.
Again, Doyle's admin ADMITTED to leaving Walker a multi-billion dollar deficit last November:
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Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's administration on Friday told Republican Governor-elect Scott Walker that he would have to cope with a $2.2 billion deficit in the state's upcoming two-year budget, but this brighter-than-expected forecast contained more than $1 billion in hidden pain.
To arrive at the favorable estimate, the Doyle administration's estimate assumed that Walker and lawmakers would make spending cuts that have yet to actually happen - two more years of state employee furloughs, no pay raises, a virtual hiring freeze and belt tightening in state health programs. Without that $1.1 billion in savings, the state's projected shortfall rises to $3.3 billion - a significant increase over previous estimates that put the gap at between $2.7 billion and $3.1 billion.
You'd need to take your own advice on that subject before dishing it. You can't articulate a credible grievance so you point it at "Unions". Your dress is tucked into your panty hose for all the world to see. Keep talking.
I have no clue what you're talking about, as usual.
No, that's called compensation for work performed, delayed until retirement.
PLEASE STOP HIJACKING THIS THREAD!
TOPIC: KOCH BROTHERS SETTING UP A LOBBYING OFFICE IN MADISON AND APPARENTLY ALREADY LOOKING TO FILL NEW MANAGEMENT POSITIONS IN WISCONSIN POWER PLANTS.
I'm not hijacking anything. I was directly responding to something you said. Wow.
It may be compensation for work performed if the pension has been worked out as terms of employment, but you need to admit they are getting a profit on what is being paid in. That's kind of the whole basis for retirement accounts in general, you pay in, gain interest, and reap the rewards when you retire. Pensions in the public sector are not fiscally sound as that money is paid by the taxpayer, and right now in WI, there is a HUGE financial shortfall when it comes to the pension system. That is an irrefutable fact.
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