Gov. Jim Doyle proposed a biennial budget that any responsible conservative could support. He held the line on taxes, made painful cuts in state programs, and found the resources to maintain the state’s long-standing commitments to support public education and programs that aid the neediest Wisconsinites.
There was nothing radical about Doyle’s budget. Yet Republicans on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee have scrapped the Doyle budget and replaced it with a proposal that is indeed radical.