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Evers' "Shocking" Budget
One of the lawmakers who will actually write Wisconsin’s next budget says the details of Gov. Tony Evers’ latest spending plan are worse than he expected.
Rep. Mark Born, R-Beaver Dam, heads the Joint Committee on Finance, which handles budget writing, he said Republicans expected the governor to look to spend more, but they didn’t expect this much more.
“It was kind of the same thing, with reckless spending and tax increases, and you know a liberal wish list. But we were a little bit surprised that it's actually that on steroids,” Born told reporters. “ The numbers were a little shocking. When you see him take a budget that starts a little bit below $100 billion over the two years and push that to almost $119 billion.”
Born said the governor’s spending plan would add 1,300 new state employees. And would raise taxes by billions of dollars.
“We're not even through all [the tax plans] and we're already well over $3 billion. We saw media reports last night that were already well over $2 billion, well we're seeing well over $3 billion in tax increases, way beyond any cuts,” Born explained. “It just shows how two-faced he is about this. He doesn't present that to the people of Wisconsin, when in reality he just wants to take their money, grow government, and show them that he knows how to spend it better.”
Republicans in both the Assembly and Senate Tuesday night declared Evers’ spending plan “dead on arrival.”
Born said there are some things in Evers’ budget that he likes, including the governor’s proposal to overhaul the state’s prison system,
But Born said, the final agreement on the prison in Green Bay will not be what Gov. Evers laid-out Tuesday night.
“That plan’s going to need a lot of work, it’s not realistic in its current form,” Born added.
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