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Editorial: The state budget is bad bet for Wisconsin’s future

You must do better than this.

That should be Wisconsin’s response to the state budget proposal to go before the Assembly for a vote this week.

This budget amounts to a huge, irresponsible gamble likely to haunt the state for years.

Rather than seizing the current economic downturn to put the state’s fiscal house in better order for the future, the Legislature’s budget committee shrank from the opportunity.