Walker's Budget Attacks The Poor - - His Response, 'That's The Point'

The Wisconsin State Journal is reporting that Scott Walker's budget goes after tax benefits for low-income taxpayers while adding more breaks for business or upper-income filers.

Incredibly, Walker defends what anyone else would see as weighting a system even further against people at the bottom of the ladder:

"In an interview Friday, the Republican governor called the tax credit a “redistribution program” that involves “taking money from other taxpayers and giving it to individuals who have a limited tax liability.”

“This is reducing how much money other taxpayers have to give to those individuals,” Walker said.'"

But redistributing funds and benefits through the budget by adding capital gains tax cuts and other tax code adjustments for wealthier or corporate filers, and having already increased the deficit by $140 million with just the first of many new business tax breaks - - there's no contradiction there?

A hint of inconsistency for this Eagle Scout and preacher's son - - markers he features in his official state biography?

Apparently not, as the budget and his remarks to the State Journal show his thumb is firmly on the upper-income, corporatist side of the public policy and financing scale.

And since the budget assaults the middle-class, too, these groups are pitted against each other while the people at the top sot back and enjoy the show.

His budget will expand the gulf between people with resources and those without - - right down to whether there is food on the table.

I have been focusing on this class-based point for a while, noting the fundamentally unfair and punitive attitude that underlies these tax shifts, and I have been pointing out that Walker has additional cuts in his budget aimed right at W-2 Welfare-to-Work recipients and even kids in the Milwaukee Public Schools breakfast program.

Here is one posting that addresses all these matters.

To single-moms on W-2: $20 less a month will push you a little harder on that job search you've put off.

School breakfast? Hey, you piggy seven-year-old. Man up: Scott says wait for lunch.