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"The state is spending way too much of our money..."
One of the Republicans who is running for governor says the new state budget could be worse.
Washington County Executive Josh Schoeman was a guest on News Talk 1130 WISN Thursday, and said the new compromise budget spends way too much money. But, he said it doesn’t spend as much as Gov. Evers and Democratic lawmakers wanted.
“Let's remember where it came from and where it started. Gov. Evers proposed a budget with a 20% increase in spending, a net $2 billion increase in taxes, 1,300 new state employees, new bureaucrats, and took us from a surplus to a deficit in one budget,” Schoemann said. “The Republicans agreed to a budget that sucked less than that.”
Schoemann said he’s heard some Republican lawmakers explain a few of the “good tidbits” in the new spending plan, but he said $111 billion over the next two years is just too much.
“The state is spending way too much of our money, since it’s our money not the government’s money, and we need to get that back under control,” Schoemann added. “Because that taxing is taking money out of people's pockets. It's driving young people and retirees alike out of the state. We've got to reverse that trend so that Wisconsin is a place that people want to be and are proud to be from.”
Schoemann is running for governor against businessman and former Navy SEAL Bill Berrien on the Republican side, though other candidates may join the race.
While Schoemann said he doesn’t like the budget, he said there is a way he can campaign on it.
“You show the contrast between what Tony Evers has proposed, 20% increase in spending, two billion dollar net increases in taxes versus what I've done in Washington County,” Schoemann explained. “We've reduced the size of the bureaucracy by 25%...our tax rate is lower today than it was during World War I.”
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