Scott Walker’s deficit-cutting plan: Let’s cut everything, stat!

• bad Walker wants to cut the state’s total spending by 6.7 percent, or $4.2 billion, over the next two years. Tighten your belts!
• worse A fifth of the proposed cuts in Walker’s budget are targeted directly at schools, which clearly deserve it most.
• worser Walker’s plan directly hurts low-income people on health care, by making the standards much stricter. source

» The end result: Walker hopes to reduce the state’s structural deficit 90 percent to around $250 million – a deep, austerity-focused cut that may stop the deficit but could greatly hurt the state in the process, if you think that way. Walker, well, doesn’t. ”I have often repeated references to our state’s constitutional lesson, that it is only through frugality and moderation in government that we will see freedom and prosperity for our people,” he said. Or, you could just raise taxes if you’re really that hard up about fixing this budget problem.

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