Another article: Highlights of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's 2 year budget proposal
Good move. My town adds 3% to my tax bill for local land acquisition. The town already has more land than it can possibly effectively manage. They just spent/overpaid $3 million for a former Girl Scout camp. Some people have no problem spending other people’s money.
Walker must be over target.
He is half way there. Now he needs to sell state property holdings back to private hands.
The idea is places like Madison/Dane County use acquisitions to prevent the growth of suburbs. They want people all corralled in cities.
That is great news. I remember back in the 60s and 70s when the DNR was sending goon squads out to try and coerce owners into selling their river property to the DNR.
He has boldly and Bravely attacked Government Unions, Greedy Universities and now their precious Gov fronted land grab schemes.
All other GOP candidates are nothing but anemic windbags compared to Scott (Superman) Walker.
Yet as he is going it alone, actually doing the things that others only whisper about, he is still not fully appreciated and embraced by many on the right.
I say SHAME on anyone who says they want Traditional American Values, yet sits back and nit-pics this or that phrase, or condemns walker because he hasn't given them a personal phone call to address their single issue obsession.
Scott Walker needs all of our support now.
There are a LOT of people in Wisconsin who do not want Walker to run as president.
And it is not because they dislike him.
The Republicans control the governor and the legislature. Why not just do away with it?
Oh man, he traded Right to Work for this, and other tax saving measures?
FYI, that’s to needle the Cruz guys.
A sizable portion of the money the state dnr has to spend comes from the federal govt. The state has to match the federal money and sometimes the local govt has to come up with the money.
If Wisconsin doesn't want it, Arkansas, Colorado, or others will take it. Tourist business is big business.
There are two streams of money from the feds.
The first dates back to Eisenhower and royalties from offshore drilling, which fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the park money fund, and the historical site preservation money.
The other stream is excise taxes. The Federal Aid to wildlife dates back to the 30s which is a excise tax on hunting equipment and supplies that the treasury collects, which is turned over to FWS and then granted back to the states. There is also an excise tax on fishing equipment/supplies and motor boat fuel that get granted back to the states. They have funding formulas based on the number of hunting & Fishing licenses and boat registrations but they all require matching grants.