Walker’s autonomy plan has nothing to do with what he tries to pass off as a better way to free the university to gain efficiencies and, in turn, “save” taxpayers money. It has everything to do, though, with the $300 million he can use as a downpayment on the state’s $2 billion budget deficit. Walker not only needs to cover that deficit, but come up with enough additional spending cuts so he can fulfill his promise to make yet more tax cuts in the next biennium.
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