Wisconsinâ??s families want, and deserve change. But instead of charting a new course during this budget season, the Republicans who have been running the State Assembly since 1995 are up to the same old tired budget games they have been playing for the past 12 years, the Assembly’s Assistant Minority Leader Jon Richards says in a column.
They passed a state budget in the Assembly that is chock full of accounting tricks, bad policy and pork-barrel spending and deep cuts to vital services. It contains off-the-wall ideas like ending state support for the University of Wisconsin Law School and for the AMBER alert system. At the end of the day it will threaten the long term financial stability of our state and force cuts to the priorities that middle class families in our state care most about.