GOP budget punitive privatization underway in Walker's Wisconsin

The kinds of unprincipled ideological attacks on Medicare, Medicaid and food stamps, along with more tax changes benefiting higher-income earners outlined in the latest Paul Ryan-GOP budget today are already underway to one degree or another in Scott Walker's Tea Party-captured Wisconsin. 

The GOP budget, according to The New York Times:

...partly privatizes Medicare, turns Medicaid into block grants to the states, repeals the Affordable Care Act and reaches balance in 10 years, challenging Republicans in Congress to make good on their promises to deeply cut federal spending. The House proposal leans heavily on the policy prescriptions that Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin outlined when he was budget chairman.

Partial privatization because under the plan, current Medicare recipients would remain under the federal government, single-payer plan, New recipients would all get vouchers for private insurance purchase.

If you want a preview of what a Walker presidency would do with Ryan at the controls in the budget-writing House of Representatives, connect these dots:

* Walker's budgets have included tax cuts with the biggest benefits at the higher end, and for businesses, while actually raising taxes on low-income residents.

* Walker has already thrown thousands of low-income Wisconsinites off BadgerCare. He has refused to expand it with available Medicaid and Obamacare funding - - even though that has increase costs to state taxpayers..

* His current, proposed state budget reduces lifetime receipt of Medicaid and food stamps from five years to four, and adds a mandatory drug-testing requirement.

* That budget also upends existing arrangements for home care for the long-term disabled and transfers treatment to private insurers.