After Pledging To Not Raise Taxes, Walker Proposes Hiking Taxes And Fees On The Poor And Students

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/16/walker-tax-hike/

One of the most important ideological commitments of the modern conservative movement is an opposition to tax increases. It is with this ideology that then-Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker signed Americans For Tax Reforms’ “Taxpayer Protection Pledge,” a vow not to raise taxes on the people of his state.

Yet in his newly proposed budget, now-governor Walker appears to have already broken this pledge. While the budget would lower taxes overall — it includes $83.3 million in tax cuts “primarily for businesses and investors” — it would make up for lost revenue by eliminating tax credits and exemptions that primarily benefit the poor and even some in the middle class.

Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau — the state’s equivalent of the Congressional Budget Office — finds that this would amount to a $49.9 million tax increase on people who receive these credits over the next two years:

Low and middle income people would lose tax credits worth about $49.4 million over two years, the new Legislative Fiscal Bureau report said.

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[indepat]

1. To pubs, raising taxes on the poor and middle-class is not raising taxes it those raised

taxes inure to the benefit of corporations and the wealthy. :patriot:

[BIGFOOTSDADDY333]

2. you cant trust what repubs say

to them the ends justify the means. as long as what they say gets them what they want then it's OK. just ask john the 'kyl' of crap

[surrealAmerican]

6. Right you are.

... and welcome to DU.

[MadMaddie]

3. Walker will be gone by February 2012

good riddence.

[Donnachaidh]

4. but how much damage will he inflict before then?

The rumor is he's going to try to pull a financial martial law bill like Michigan's in Wisconsin. Can the Dem 14 stop that too, or is the state screwed?

[MadMaddie]

7. This is true

The damage will be the Republicans undoing. The more draconian they get the more people turn against them. It's not the average Joe and Betty we have to worry about it's the big money.

We have to get the Supreme Court ruling overturned by Congress.

[BIGFOOTSDADDY333]

5. we can only hope. i would have thought klopenburg

would won in lite of all that is going on