The proposed Wisconsin state budget calls for the end to state-subsidized child care for government employees. The center has its rent, utilities and insurance paid for by the state in exchange for a $3 a month discount to state workers. It costs the taxpayers $293,000 a year for 110 children of state workers.
The mayor of Madison, Dave Cieslewi, sprinted with the unions to extend union contracts before the budget repair bill passes. Now, they have discovered that the proposed budget will would also reduce the amount that districts can increase revenues - a combination of state aid and property taxes. This prevents local officials from using property taxes to make up the difference. (Madison had planned for a 2 percent INCREASE.)
The biggest change, however, might be in transportation where the state "has in the past eight years raided its transportation fund for $1.3 billion to pay for other state programs. It has borrowed $1 billion to offset the loss, leaving a $300 million shortfall."
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