In Scott Walkers cut cut cut cut Wisconsin State Budget, one item passed under the radar: we're now spending more tax dollars on keeping people in prison than we spend on our state university system.
For 2011-'13, Gov. Scott Walker and GOP lawmakers allotted the state's public universities just under $2.1 billion to the Department of Corrections' $2.25 billion, a gap that is unlikely to close any time soon. In total, the University of Wisconsin System will receive approximately $315.8 million in cuts over two years while the corrections budget will take a $53.8 million hit over the same period.
Not only that, but they massively increased the tuition that Wisconsinites pay to attend our public university system and stripped 18% out of the paychecks of every state employee to pay for benefits as well as stripping their union rights to negotiate anything besides wages under a narrowly state-defined limit.
Priorities. Prison over education. Tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest in Wisconsin paid for by cuts to our children, our elderly, our public employees, and our most vulnerable citizens. Even I I can't find any snark that fits.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/13/1119814/-Wis-Milestone-We-Now-Spend-More-on-Prisons-than-Universities#
= new reply since forum marked as read
