3-19-15 state budget-area lawmakers react

Republican legislators say the governor’s proposed budget is balanced and reduces property taxes while Democrats say it’s a budget that sets up a presidential run for Governor Scott Walker.  The legislature’s  Jt. Finance Committee listened to public testimony Wednesday at the first of several public hearings scheduled at different locations across the state.  Republican state representative Joan Ballweg says the budget would do what governor has said he wants to accomplish.  “I know the governor in the end has got a balanced budget.  What he has proposed is going to reduce property taxes,”  Ballweg told WFDL news.  Ballweg says she wants to hear from constituents.  Democrat state representative Gordon Hintz is a member of the budget writing committee.  “I think a lot of people are asking the question that why at a time of relative economic prosperity is Wisconsin experiencing a crisis budget?  We’re gutting our UW system and cutting our K-12 education,”  Hintz told WFDL news.   On AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program state senate majority leader Scott Fitzgerald says he thinks the governor’s proposed $300 million cut to the UW system will stay pretty much in tact because K-12 education and transportation funding are the top priorities.  Hintz says there wouldn’t be a problem if the governor would accept the federal Medicaid money.  Fitzgerald says he thinks there will be changes made to the governor’s proposal to borrow money to help pay for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena.

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