Governor Walker said today that if the Senate Dems do not return and allow the budget repair bill to pass by April 1st, he will be "forced" to layoff 1500 state employees. He goes on to further state that if the debt restructuring piece of his budget repair bill is not passed he will be forced to layoff even more state employees.
We do not know where he comes with all of these numbers because earlier this year the Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported that Wisconsin would end the fiscal year on June 30th with a budget surplus. However, being fair to Governor Walker, that was the estimate before he began pushing for all of his "tax cuts" to businesses that had contributed to his campaign and before he began returning millions of dollars back to the Federal Government for such things as High Speed Rail, Health Care Reform implementation and rural broadband.
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