Business Groups Seeking New Power To Confiscate Tax Revenue

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Wealthy business groups, but more specifically republicans, are leading the way to sidestep legislative and executive decisions in order to carve out tax revenue from government budgets.

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The Finding Forward Coalition says transfers from the fund to help balance perennial state budget deficits has hurt the state's infrastructure, jeopardizing commerce and costing jobs.

They've gone full metal-jacket with their deficit spending rhetoric and earmark hypocrisy. They want to constitutionalize "earmarking" tax dollars for special interest priorities - even if it guarantees deficits or makes them worse.

GOP candidates for governor, Scott Walker and Mark Neumann, support that deficit guarantee.