In signing the two-year $66 billion budget, Governor Scott Walker eliminates the debt saying “Republicans and Democrats alike have caused this problem.” He says “Unfortunately for all of us ‘honest budgeting’ was one of those areas where both political parties tended to look the other way.”

This controversial spending plan balances a $3 billion deficit without raising income or sales taxes, and Walker says it does not rely on one-time money, fund raids, or budgeting tricks and gimmicks. [Read more...]

Governor Scott Walker’s administration has dropped plans to sign the budget at Badger Sheet Metal Works in Green Bay, following media reports that the executive at the company was convicted of felony tax evasion.

The announcement comes on the heels of a report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Gregory A DeCaster was convicted in the 1990s of six counts of felony tax evasion. DeCaster is the current chief executive of Badger Sheet Metal Works, where Sunday’s signing was scheduled to take place. [Read more...]