Filling Potholes With An Education

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In their support to deny Gov. Doyle the necessary tools to balance a budget, the Gazette editors take a page right out of the WMC playbook.

JG Editorial Excerpt:
Doyle says the tax can't be passed on to consumers. We don't believe that, and we fear the measure could squeeze out small retailers and even lead to regional gas shortages.

JG Editorial Excerpt:
Sen. Sheila Harsdorf says Doyle used the veto in the last budget to stitch together-like Frankenstein's monster-20 words out of 752 unrelated words, transferring $427 million out of the transportation fund to pad other spending.

By "other spending" they mean education, and by "padding" for instance, they mean the Janesville school budget shortfall of $2 million would have been $5 million without the padding. So, in truth, without that veto power, the schools would have gotten $427 million dollars less.

JG Editorial Excerpt:
No legislator ever voted for this transfer. The veto created a budget hole that Doyle is filling with his gas tax.

Yep, given the choice, Republicans would much prefer to have those potholes filled than give a kid an education. And having a tax on Big Oil profits to repair potholes in the road makes no sense at all.

Thank goodness we don't have to worry about the Gazette having an agenda.

Read more opinion here on the "Frankenstein Budgets"