All funds spending:You can read the budget bills here: Senate Bill 27 & Assembly Bill 40 (they are both pdf's).
Actual FY 2010 and adjusted base FY 2011: $62.32 billion
Agency requested spending 2012-13: $67.44 billion
Walker proposal 2012-13: $59.2 billion...
When the guv touted his budget yesterday for reducing all funds spending by $4.2 billion, he was comparing his proposal ($59.2 billion) to the fiscal year 2011 doubled ($63.5 billion), which is how guvs have traditionally built their budgets.
Don't be frightened by their length of these bills (about 1300 pages). Only the first 45 pages or so are written in plain English describing the bill. The remaining pages are the legal language changes that will be to the law. I think we can all afford to read 45 pages when it comes to how we are going to spend our money in this state over the next two years, can't we?
3 comments:
Jeremy,
So where do you come down on this budget?
Is this good or bad for the people of Wisconsin?
Keep up the GREAT work.
I'm still going through the details and I think there will always be disagreements about some of the details, but look at the numbers.
It is clearly a bold move in what I believe to be the right direction.
I think anybody who is serious about reducing the size and scope of government has to admire this budget.
I think we can all afford to read 45 pages when it comes to how we are going to spend our money in this state over the next two years, can't we?
Nah. Why do that when you can just take the word of your favorite blowhards & hucksters (from either side).
It always astonishes me that in a time where it has never been easier to go directly to the source and find out for yourself, people seem to be more gullible than ever at believing outlandish things.
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