Kathianne
03-01-2016, 06:54 AM
When government is restrained to successfully doing what it's mandated to do, the people can do what they are free to do, successfully:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2016/02/28/act10/#35b1abe750f9
<time itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-02-28T13:20:00-05:00" class="ng-binding" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase;">FEB 28, 2016 @ 01:20 PM</time> 23,447 VIEWSFive Years Later, Scott Walker's Reforms Have Saved Taxpayers Billions
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Like North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin was a state where, following a lengthy period of Democrat rule, Republicans took control of all levers of state government in the 2010 midterm elections. Confronting a more than $3 billion budget deficit upon taking office in 2011, Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators responded with Act 10, also referred to as the Budget Repair Act, which helped put Wisconsin’s finances in order by doing the following:
- Limits collective bargaining to wage negotiations, and requires annual union recertification.
- Requires government worker pay increases in excess of the rate of inflation be subject to voter approval.
- Ends automatic deduction of union dues, requiring union bosses to make the case to workers why they should join and financially support a union.
- Requires government workers to start contributing something toward their health insurance and retirement savings.
According to a recent report by the MacIver Institute (http://www.maciverinstitute.com/research/2016/02/act-10-saves-wisconsin-taxpayers-more-than-5-billion-over-5-years-maciver-analysis-finds/?platform=hootsuite), a free market think tank based in Madison, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers over $5 billion.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickgleason/2016/02/28/act10/#35b1abe750f9
<time itemprop="datePublished" content="2016-02-28T13:20:00-05:00" class="ng-binding" style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-transform: uppercase;">FEB 28, 2016 @ 01:20 PM</time> 23,447 VIEWSFive Years Later, Scott Walker's Reforms Have Saved Taxpayers Billions
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Like North Carolina, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Wisconsin was a state where, following a lengthy period of Democrat rule, Republicans took control of all levers of state government in the 2010 midterm elections. Confronting a more than $3 billion budget deficit upon taking office in 2011, Gov. Scott Walker and Republican legislators responded with Act 10, also referred to as the Budget Repair Act, which helped put Wisconsin’s finances in order by doing the following:
- Limits collective bargaining to wage negotiations, and requires annual union recertification.
- Requires government worker pay increases in excess of the rate of inflation be subject to voter approval.
- Ends automatic deduction of union dues, requiring union bosses to make the case to workers why they should join and financially support a union.
- Requires government workers to start contributing something toward their health insurance and retirement savings.
According to a recent report by the MacIver Institute (http://www.maciverinstitute.com/research/2016/02/act-10-saves-wisconsin-taxpayers-more-than-5-billion-over-5-years-maciver-analysis-finds/?platform=hootsuite), a free market think tank based in Madison, Act 10 has saved Wisconsin taxpayers over $5 billion.
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