Wisconsin: Fact Check Shows Self Serving Scott Walker Editorial Ignores Reality
http://newiprogressive.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2659:fact-check-shows-self-serving-scott-walker-editorial-ignores-reality&catid=42:elections-officials-political-parties&Itemid=59
WALKER CLAIMS: “Tax relief: More than $630 million in tax relief to cut middle-class taxes and lower tax rates; holds the line on property taxes; helps key industries such as manufacturing and agriculture grow in our state.”
FACT: After raising taxes on seniors and working families by nearly $70 million in his first budget, while giving out $2.3 billion in tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, Scott Walker is blowing up the state’s structural deficit to a whopping $664 million to give out a tax cut averaging $83 per year, per family – most of which will benefit the upper tax brackets.
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WALKER CLAIMS: “Health care: Reduces the number of uninsured by 224,580; increases support for cancer treatment and research; improves access in rural and impoverished areas.”
FACT: Scott Walker’s estimates are pure fantasy. He turned down federal funds to expand Wisconsin’s successful BadgerCare program.The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates that the expansion of BadgerCare would cover an additional 175,000 Wisconsinites and save the state more than $66 million over the first three years. Other estimates indicate that expansion could create as many as 10,000 new Wisconsin jobs.
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