About the Budget from the AFL-CIO: Last Sunday, June 30, Gov. Walker signed a two-year, $68 billion dollar budget into law. Gov. Walker made 57 vetoes of words or phrases in the budget, all of which left a bad budget largely intact. The next day, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board even went so far as to call the budget “fatally flawed” and said its contents demonstrate that Republicans value their “political agenda over good government.” We’ve updated our 2013-2015 Budget Overview and Its Impact on Working Families document to reflect the veto changes made this week. To note, Gov. Walker vetoed a provision in the budget which would have created a for-profit bail bondsmen system in Wisconsin. He crossed out the last-minute change by GOP lawmakers that would have slyly lifted the 1,000 student cap on taxpayer-funded voucher schools. Walker also vetoed a provision that would have allocated $3.5 million to communities devastated by shady mortgages for the demolition of foreclosed-upon homes. Milwaukee would have received most of the allocated funds, but Gov. Walker, continuing his attack on the city, removed the money from the budget. All in all, Gov. Walker’s vetoes did little to correct a bad budget chock-full of special interest givebacks to campaign donors. Wisconsin is left with a 2013-2015 biennial budget which starves public schools and local communities of necessary resources to thrive and prosper; a budget which fails Wisconsin’s middle-class families across the state. In Solidarity, Phil Neuenfeldt, President Stephanie Bloomingdale, Secretary-Treasurer
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 05:37:33 +0000
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