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Senator Cowles: Lawmakers Should Have Been More Cautious
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 9, 2014
From WisPolitics . . .
GOP state Sen. Rob Cowles, who pushed fellow Republicans to address the structural deficit as part of a tax cut package earlier this year, said the new projection shows lawmakers should have been more cautious in handling the surplus.
Cowles, R-Green Bay, noted a report from the Department of Administration due in October that includes expenditures as well as revenues could help soften the deficit. Still, he also pointed out Wisconsin’s Medicaid fund faced a $93 million shortfall earlier this year and the state is now in a dispute with the Forest County Potawatomi over the tribe’s gaming revenue sharing payments.
There’s also the chance revenue collections could pick back up, though the state needs to “be prepared that it might not be quite that good,” he said.
“Until you’ve gone through one of these things, you really don’t understand how bad it can get,” said Cowles, who’s been in the Legislature since 1983. “Maybe they’ll be more cautious next time.”
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