Play with and parse the language of public finances all you want - - and remember how talk radio and others conservatives gripe when a new fee is added or an old one raised instead to avoid a politically-damaging tax increase.
So go stand with Scott Walker and say with a straight face that tuition is not a tax, but Wisconsin students and their families know that raising tuition is just another way for the state to collect money.
UW-Madison is estimating a 20% increase over two years.
And separately, income taxes are going up for thousands of low-income working poor, too.
There's your no-tax-increase budget.
Wow, calling it a tax hike based on an estimate. Sounds like what I would describe as a SWAG(Stupid Wild Assed Guess).
ReplyDeleteThe budget calls for an unspecified increase and the 20% estimate is authoritative. Should we pretend none of that was written down and discussed?
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