Tesha Miller
Seismologik
Just as an iceberg’s mass is largely hidden beneath the waters surface, despite state and federal budgetary shortfalls taxpayers priorities remained primarily concealed . . . until now.
The call for austerity measures and the budgetary turmoil experienced in Wisconsin has taken a state economic union-busting policy and turned it into an explosive national ideological battleground.
Governor Walker managed to destroy a budgetary surplus with the sweep of a pen, by giving tax cuts to corporations and was going to make the public workers pay for it. Simply put, public unions ability to collectively bargain was to blame for the deficit he had created and if the peoples hard-won rights could just be revoked, then state government could balance a budget. A thinking person should ask, “If the roughly 39% public union members are such an economic burden, then how did they manage all this time”?
Judging by the massive protests held in Madison to oppose such measures, swelling at times to over 200,000, the people of Wisconsin weren’t convinced by this flawed leap in logic and ask just that.
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