re: #42 andres

No, this isn’t strictly true. Wisconsin had a budget deficit if all actual obligations were totaled.

It is also a red herring whether or not there was a deficit. The busting of the unions is bad no matter how high the deficit is. It’s not going to help the deficit in any significant manner.

One of the weird things is the way that people seem to think of money paid out to pensions as vanishing into the ether, rather than, you know, being used by retired workers to buy stuff.