Scott Walker’s Billion Dollar Buffoonery

By: Wednesday April 25, 2012 8:00 am

Scott Walker on Monday claimed he saved Wisconsin taxpayers $1 billion, mainly through his union busting Act 10. But a careful look at this claim reveals Walker both exaggerated or invented the savings while balancing his budget on the backs of the poor, adding teachers and public servants to the unemployed, imposing a de facto tax on public employees, claiming credit for declining property values, and increasing fees while he claimed to be cutting taxes.

Economic Ignorance

By: Sunday July 10, 2011 10:40 am

Ignorant Democrats can’t counter the stupid economic theories preached by ignorant Republicans.

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