re: #16 wlewisiii

Who trashed Milwaukee county before running as the great white GOP hope. Feh!

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Walker won the office on a platform of fiscal conservatism, promising, among other things, to give back part of his own salary, and criticizing the salaries of other county workers as excessive. He said his voluntary give-back gave him the moral authority to make cuts in the county budget. He continued returning $60,000 annually, (slightly less than half of his salary), for several years, but by 2008, he cut his give-back to $10,000 per year. During his seven years in office, he never submitted a budget with a higher property tax levy than the county board had approved, he cut the number of county employees by 20 percent, and reduced the county’s debt by ten percent. However, according to The Associated Press, “overall county spending … increased 35 percent over his tenure”.

Another Republican fiscal magic trick. Both Bush 2 and Reagan did similar things on a national level.