Monday, October 22, 2007

LFB Numbers

The Legislative Fiscal Bureau has its numbers out.  The compromise budget represents a 6.6% increase in spending - NOT the 8% that Doyle threw out. 

Here it is.

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1255 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Still very substantial…looks like a win for Doyle.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 22, 2007 at 1514 hrs


  2. I think Owen was implying that Doyle was saying on Friday it was an 8% increase in spending.

    As someone who started to pay attention to state budgets in 2001, I believe I’ve now seen spending grow $10 billion in that time frame.

    *sigh*

    Posted by Kevin Binversie on October 22, 2007 at 1614 hrs


  3. You can say that again, Anon.  Comparing the state-tax-dollar portion of the spending, Doyle’s getting 90.9% of the difference between his original proposal and the “no-new-taxes” one that came out of the Assembly.

    Almost all of the reduction in the increase in total spending comes from less cash grovelled from the feds (read, everybody in the country), and even that is a massive increase.

    Posted by steveegg on October 22, 2007 at 1616 hrs


  4. And for those of you with a thirst for detail, here it is.

    http://www.legis.state.wi.us/lfb/2007-09budget/Conference Committee/tableofcontents.htm

    I am not sure who the winners in this will turn out to be, but the losers are the taxpayers and a rational approach to determining the needs of the state and the funding of them.

    I thought logrolling was illegal in this state?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 22, 2007 at 1703 hrs


  5. And from the illustrious Speaker’s email to the Senate and Assembly Republicans

    As a point of reference, the US Department of Commerce recently announced that Wisconsin’s
    per capita personal income grew at 4.6% in 2006. With the growth in all funds spending
    averaging 3.3% annually, the bipartisan budget agreement appropriates almost 1.3% per year
    below personal income growth and lives within the taxpayers’ means.

    I guess they really were thinking of us after all.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 22, 2007 at 1709 hrs


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