11-14-2016, 01:48 AM
(11-14-2016, 01:03 AM)SickBeast Wrote: Wow all that chaos to save only $1 billion per year. They screwed over the entire public sector and all the teachers just to save that much. It's going to put your education system into chaos. $1 billion per year is not a lot of money in the grand scheme of things for a state government.
There has got to be a better way to handle these things.
We're just one of 50 states down here. $1b is 1/15th of our annual education budget. (so it's not insignificant)
https://ballotpedia.org/Wisconsin_state_...d_finances
The state is already in debt, so the only other way to "handle things" is raise taxes.
Our taxes are already 5th highest in the nation:
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/total_taxes/
See the problem Walker was faced with?
Like I said, I'm not a fan of pay cuts, especially for educators. I vote for every education referendum even though it will cost me. I get the predicament the state is in as well though.