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— Does not include any state sales or income tax increases and would limit schools and local governments on how much they could raise property taxes.
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Which is big state government takeover dictating how individual towns with home rule can run their own towns. That means that even if every citizen in a town votes to want to raise taxes to increase the quality of schooling, or fund a fire station, or buy a snowplow, Walker has prevented them from doing it. Probably not legal, and towns are already talking about suing the state.
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— [b]Creates a 100 percent exclusion from capital gains taxes for those who invest in Wisconsin-based businesses and hold those investments for at least five years.
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2/3 of Wisconsin corporations already pay zero in taxes. Nice to see Walker is giving away more state income in the face of a deficit. Not smart.
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— Cuts $500 million from Medicaid through a variety of reforms including increasing co-pays and deductibles, but not by reducing benefits across the board or cutting provider reimbursement rates.
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Making poor people who cannot afford it pay more for health care. Brilliant! Google: "Arizona death panel transplants"
Takes away current legislative branch control over medicaid, and puts it in the sole care and control of the Governor's office: Walker is solely responsible for who qualifies and what their benefits will be.
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— Cuts aid to schools by about $900 million and also reduces how much schools can collect from property taxes per student.
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Who in their right mind can think that an 8% decrease in school funding is good? Eliminate all the extra classes, advanced classes, etc. And that towns that do NOT want to decrease the number of teachers, or lose programs, or lose school funding, are
not allowed by the governor to do that, in their own towns! This is simply beyond crazy.
Well, no - it's a deliberate effort to put the schools into such a disastrous mess, that Walker can push for privatization.