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Related: About this forumWisconsin: Walker's chaos budget
http://thepoliticalenvironment.blogspot.com/2015/02/walkers-chaos-budget.htmlMegalomania unbound: Scott Walker's proposed 2015-'17 budget is a score-settling (as I said earlier) ultra-Tea Party scorched-earth blueprint for statewide chaos - - a document drafted principally for his gratuitous, unbalanced power-grabbing-self-aggrandizement at the public's expense, as it proposes:
* Eliminating 66 science positions and DNR authority to oversee river protections where sand mining is rampant.
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* Wiping out the historic Wisconsin citizen policy oversight board above the Department of Natural Resources, further consolidating Walker's personal administrative through his appointed Secretary and senior staff powers to minimize environmental inspection and enforcement actions that protect public health and resources so that our land and water can be more easily handed over to developers and despoilers.
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* Starving more millions from already-strapped public schools statewide which took a billion-dollar hit in his first budget by directing unlimited transfers of per-pupil funds to private and parochial schools.
* Eliminating 66 science positions and DNR authority to oversee river protections where sand mining is rampant.
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* Wiping out the historic Wisconsin citizen policy oversight board above the Department of Natural Resources, further consolidating Walker's personal administrative through his appointed Secretary and senior staff powers to minimize environmental inspection and enforcement actions that protect public health and resources so that our land and water can be more easily handed over to developers and despoilers.
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* Starving more millions from already-strapped public schools statewide which took a billion-dollar hit in his first budget by directing unlimited transfers of per-pupil funds to private and parochial schools.
There is an upside, however. Wisconsin homeowners can expect to save about $10 on their annual property tax bills. More at the link.
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Wisconsin: Walker's chaos budget (Original Post)
Scuba
Feb 2015
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Adam051188
(711 posts)1. american democracy at work.
I love the smell of institutionalized bribery in the morning.
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)2. I took the day off work
so I can spend the day planning how I'm going to use my $10.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)3. I'm going to buy a State Senator with mine. Oh wait, that won't be enough.
unionthug777
(740 posts)4. 10 dollars.....hmmmm
perhaps a good ipa 4-pack.....decisions..decisions
$10.00