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When it comes to dealing with the $5 billion deficit, pick your poison

Gov. Jim Doyle and the Democratic majorities in the state Senate and Assembly have options to deal with the $5 billion projected budget shortfall announced Tuesday. The catch is, none of them is pretty.

Battered by a harsh economy, Wisconsin’s tax revenues are projected to go down in each of the next two years â?? only the second time that’s happened in the more than four decades on record.