[SheLion]

YEA! SPEND IT LIKE THERE IS NO TOMORROW.

[SheLion]

Pitiful.

What will they do in the years to come? Raise cigarette taxes AGAIN?!

[kcpopps]

"...will use ALL of the money from the sale of Wisconsin's tobacco-settlement payments."

They did the same thing in Missouri - but they still have items in the upcoming election to raise taxes. In Missouri, legislators traded $1 billion in long-term tobacco settlement revenues for $530 million in near term borrowing -- surely one of the most irresponsible moves in state history.

They have billion coming to them in future payments, but they piss half of it away so they can spend it now.

These people are totally reckless and shortsighted. We are governed by IDIOTS.

Remeinds me of an old quote, can't remember who said it...
"Giving money and power to politicians is like giving a teenage boy your car keys and a bottle of whisky"

[Great Dane]

They sound so darn proud of themselves, the smug idiots.

[Hot Tabasco]

"If something happened -- we were worried we may not get it,"

Hope they're not expecting to get this moolah from the Feds....

[Alissa]

So much for the tobacco smoking victims and THEIR families!

[LouD]

The budget was thrown out of balance by an economic slump and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Actually, the budget was thrown out of balance by Chuck Chvala and government spending run amuck, aided by a bunch of brain dead Senate Democrats who never saw a good, mediocre, or stupid idea they didn't like and wouldn't fund, and the do-nothing RINOs who just grab their ankles and raise their butts in the air every budget season.