States have to balance their budgets. He spent too much and therefore had a huge deficit and needs to raise taxes and cut spending to clear that monster deficit.
WRONG! Walker cut taxes and refused to increase spending. Trump has a problem with that.
It would help if you actually looked at the WI budget before opining false comments to Gov Walker. You can attribute it to past Democratic administrations for the problems and credit Gov Walker and the Republican legislature to solving them.
Here is the whole budget for your perusal:
http://www.doa.state.wi.us/Documents/DEBF/Budget/Biennial%20Budget/2015-17%20Executive%20Budget/bib1517.pdf
2015-17 BUDGET
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Four years ago, Wisconsin faced a $3.6 billion budget deficit, property taxes had risen 27 percent over
the previous decade, increasing every year, and the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent. Years of
budgetary mismanagement and unchecked spending meant the State had bills it could not pay. The
Budget Stabilization Fund (Rainy Day Fund) was nearly empty.
The shortfall in fiscal year 2010-11 was representative of the longer-term problem
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Wisconsin had a corrosive deficit because of a very simple math problem: state spending continually exceeded its
revenue. State government was consistently in a reactive mode, subject to spending drivers, such as
Medicaid and public employee personnel costs, which consumed resources without restraint.
In prior biennia, one-time fixes and
delayed payments damaged our State’s fiscal foundation. The federal stimulus cash bought us little, except more time for further budgetary negligence. Predictably, this left even bigger holes, as budgeting for the moment and out of convenience was consciously chosen over planning for the future.
This problem plagued our state for well over a decade, regardless of the performance of our economy.
Such fiscal malpractice left the State ill-prepared for economic challenges and the drastically rising costs
of various programs and benefits.
It also hampered economic growth, as the short-sighted budgeting practices prohibited a clear, coherent path to public policies driven towards economic growth and
individual freedom and achievement.
The Governor and Legislature addressed these problems in the last two biennial budgets and other key
pieces of legislation. Together, these initiatives paid outstanding bills, settled our debts and provided key
components of our Blueprint for Prosperity
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The contrasts could not be clearer. Today, Wisconsin has a balanced budget, property taxes on a median-valued home have decreased in each of the last four years, the unemployment rate is down to 5.2 percent, and Wisconsin is 12th in the nation in growth in per capita personal income growth.
New business ventures are up nearly 11 percent, while in November 2014 Wisconsin experienced its greatest
month of private sector job growth since 1990. We have also been able to invest in educational
opportunities that improve the skills of our workforce and match employees with the highly-skilled jobs
being created by manufacturing and other strong industries.