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Our view: In Wisconsin budget battle, bad behavior all around

In Wisconsin, today?s Ground Zero for state budget battles, it is not hard to see bad behavior all around. Teachers are playing hooky to protest Gov. Scott Walker?s plan to trim their benefits and clip back the power of their union. Democratic lawmakers are hiding out in Illinois to prevent a GOP majority from working its will. And Walker, a newly elected Republican, has chosen this moment of fiscal crisis to pursue questionable tax cuts and a risky attack on collective bargaining.