Didn’t anyone provide County Executive Scott Walker with a copy of the federal stimulus legislation? Is he pretending to be totally unfamiliar with it? Or is he really such a dolt he hasn’t bothered to become at all informed about what is in it?
The bill says what the stimulus money can be used for. Across-the-board tax cuts, such as Walker proposed yesterday, isn’t among the approved purposes.
Tax cuts also don’t fix the county roads that are falling apart, or the huge deferred maintenance backlog that has only grown worse since Walker took the helm.
It’s a shame that when the country, county and their citizens are bleeding, Walker is out there pandering to his ever-narrower base instead of working for the broadest common good.
Are you suggesting that Milwaukee county would not be able to fix roads (that need fixing) if there were no stimulus package? Could you show evidence of this assertion?
Could not the state use already budgeted money for infrastructure (roads, etc) for the proposed tax cuts and in turn use the stimulus towards what ever projects that were already allotted for infrastructure?
Either way, what Scott is suggesting is that we stimulate the economy by giving people back their money, which is the only proven method of stimulus. If you do not agree then you can simply donate more of your own money to taxes.
I would like to see you deny the tax cuts, if indeed they were to be put in place.
Have you ever denied a tax cut?
If you’re so smart then why don’t you run for County Executive.
I think Walker was proposing a working budget based on the money he had coming in. Using it to reduce our current tax load is the most efficient use of the resource. He couldn’t stop it from being printed up, but at least he can find the most efficient way to spend it….on taxpayers.