Politics

Where is the Budget Crisis?

By Brendan Fischer

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker alleges that dismantling public sector collective bargaining rights is made necessary by a $3.6 billion deficit in the next budget, and a $137 million shortfall this year. Setting aside the fact that the ability to negotiate shifts, seniority, benefits and conditions of employment would have a negligible impact on the deficit, and looking beyond Walker?s deceptive claim that the alternative to union-busting is to kick 200,000 children off Medicaid (called ?false? by Politifact), how deep is the state?s economic crisis?

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Full post as published by PR Watch on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).