Despite a record budget deficit, Rep. Garthwaite supported Governor Doyle's plans to dramatically increase government spending over the past two years. A quick comparison of the last state budget to the current one reveals just how steep Garthwaite and Doyle's spending increases have been.
2007-09 Wisconsin State Budget
$59.99 Billion
2009-2011 Wisconsin State Budget
$65.77 Billion
Garthwaite/Doyle Spending Increase
$5.78 Billion
9.63%
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
State Budget Deficit Balloons Under Garthwaite's Watch...Again.
The non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) reported today that Wisconsin's structural budget deficit increased by $277 million over the last six months. This is bad, bad news for the state but it isn't really all that surprising.
Garthwaite and the Democrat majority in the State Assembly voted to increase taxes by nearly $5 billion last year alone. When a government increases taxes on employers in the middle of a recession it hurts them. They stop hiring and sometimes lay people off. They put off expansions. Sometimes they even go out of business. The end result is lower than anticipated tax revenues.
Add to that the fact that Garthwaite voted to increase state spending by 10% and our state ends up with a huge budget deficit. According to this press release, Wisconsin's deficit is more than $2.3 billion. As Rep. Fitzgerald puts it, every man, woman, and child in Wisconsin would have to pay an additional $413 in taxes next year just so the state could break even. Please remind Rep. Garthwaite of this next fall when he brags about voting for a "balanced" budget.
For more information, see this release from Senator Mike Ellis.
In other news, even the neo-socialist Daily Kos is weighing in on the problems facing Assembly Democrat leadership in Wisconsin.
Garthwaite and the Democrat majority in the State Assembly voted to increase taxes by nearly $5 billion last year alone. When a government increases taxes on employers in the middle of a recession it hurts them. They stop hiring and sometimes lay people off. They put off expansions. Sometimes they even go out of business. The end result is lower than anticipated tax revenues.
Add to that the fact that Garthwaite voted to increase state spending by 10% and our state ends up with a huge budget deficit. According to this press release, Wisconsin's deficit is more than $2.3 billion. As Rep. Fitzgerald puts it, every man, woman, and child in Wisconsin would have to pay an additional $413 in taxes next year just so the state could break even. Please remind Rep. Garthwaite of this next fall when he brags about voting for a "balanced" budget.
For more information, see this release from Senator Mike Ellis.
In other news, even the neo-socialist Daily Kos is weighing in on the problems facing Assembly Democrat leadership in Wisconsin.
Who says we can't admit when we're wrong? Garthwaite increased state spending by 10%, not 6% as we had thought.
The hyper-geeky, ever correct number crunchers at the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WTA) reported today that Rep. Garthwaite voted to increase government spending by just more than 10%, rather that the six or so percent that PGWatch had reported. Our 6% number was based on reports released from the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, news outlets, and Republican legislators. Sorry.
Read the full release from the WTA for more details.
Read the full release from the WTA for more details.
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