One year ago today: Mary Burke was right about Walker's tax cuts

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Last edited Tue Mar 24, 2015, 11:19 AM - Edit history (2)

Scott Walker's real record is that he went from a $1 billion surplus while campaigning in March, 2014, to a $2 billion deficit announced days after winning the election in November, 2014. Dishonesty or incompetence- what's the difference. He never gets anything right; he just says he does.

March 24, 2014:

Lowering taxes for the third time in less than a year, Gov. Scott Walker signed his $541 million tax cut bill in a ceremony Monday at a farm in Cecil as he travels through central and northern Wisconsin touting it. Speaking at Horsens Homestead Farms, about 35 miles northwest of Green Bay, Walker called it a great day for Wisconsin taxpayers and a sign of the state's shifting financial fortunes in recent years.

"Now, instead of billion-dollar budget deficits, we have a surplus — and today that money is on its way to the workers, parents, seniors, property owners, veterans, job creators and others. You deserve to keep as much of your hard-earned money as possible — because after all, it is your money," Walker said.

With growing tax collections now expected to give the state a $1 billion budget surplus in June 2015, Walker's tax proposal will cut property and income taxes for families and businesses, and zero out all income taxes for manufacturers in the state....

"I'm all for tax cuts, but not when they're done in a fiscally irresponsible manner that jeopardizes the state's finances," Burke said in a statement Monday. "Walker's approach to spending the projected surplus is irresponsible.

"Those projections were made on pretty rosy assumptions at a time when the state faces unfunded transportation projects and a structural deficit heading into the next budget."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/scott-walker-set-to-sign-tax-cut-legislation-b99231851z1-251936261.html

And of course more tax cut came before the election, despite protests from Democrats. Scott Walker got his talking points and we got the shaft. As the saying goes, it didn't have to be like this.

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. It's a dual-purpose action isn't it...

One, Walker gets to tout his tax cuts pre-election before the bill comes due in January. And two, it's a continuation of the neocon method for destroying everything they dislike: create a financial crisis through excessive tax cuts, then cut the programs they dislike (pretty much everything outside of police and defense) to "solve" the completely predictable crisis. As an added benefit, they get to line the pockets of their one-percenter friends with those tax cuts.

Lather, rinse, repeat...

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2. And that's exactly what he would do as President

Because it's exactly what he's told to do.

[Still In Wisconsin]

3. In point of fact, it's all he knows. n/t