SCOTT WALKER IS NOT ON OUR SIDE
SCOTT WALKER IS NOT ON THE SIDE OF WORKING FAMILIES
Scott Walker is making massive cuts to education and health care so he can pay for tax cuts to big corporations that ship Wisconsin jobs overseas and drive wages and benefits down for everyone. For example:
• Under Scott Walker, unemployment has risen from 7.4 to 7.9 percent.
• Wisconsin has lost not just public-sector jobs, but also private-sector jobs under Scott Walker’s failed policies. Wisconsin has lost private-sector jobs every single month since his budget was passed – and there are 7,000 more job seekers than there were at this time last year.
• Wisconsin leads the nation in cuts to education, averaging $635 less per pupil-even while corporations get big tax breaks.
• Poverty has increased under Scott Walker, while median household income has gone down
• Walker’s budget cut $2.6 billion from education and affected 97% of school districts THIS year.
• Meanwhile, Scott Walker is taking a $7,000 pay raise next year
SCOTT WALKER WAS DISHONEST WITH THE PEOPLE OF WISCONSIN
Never once did Scott Walker mention during his campaign for governor that he would take the radical step of ending collective bargaining for state workers. He’s also made it clear that he’ll continue to be dishonest with the people – for example, Walker was taped bragging that he would lie to elected legislators about compromise to get his way.
SCOTT WALKER IS ONLY INTERESTED IN POWER
Scott Walker deceived the public by telling them his radical policies were about balancing the budget-they REALLY were about hurting his political opponents and consolidating power for himself.
RECALL IS THE RIGHT TOOL TO STOP SCOTT WALKER
Recalls are rare for a reason, but are effective tools when elected officials make clear by their words and actions, as Scott Walker has done, that they will not act accountably to the people they’re supposed to represent. In fact, Scott Walker himself was first elected Milwaukee County executive during a recall election.
• For those who claim that Wisconsin can’t afford the recall, consider how little Wisconsin can afford Scott Walker:
• The Legislative Fiscal Bureau projects that Scott Walker’s tax giveaways will cost Wisconsin more than $2.3 billion in lost revenue over the next ten years. Most of these losses are a result of changes in Capital Gains and Combined Reporting – which benefit the highest wage earners and largest corporations in Wisconsin at the expense of working families.
• What’s more, the LFB notes that Walker’s budget will leave future state budgets with a higher than average percentage of debt service as a result of delaying debt payments. Walker is “kicking the can down the road” by adding debt to future budgets.
