733 (2009-02-20)

About this film

Here and Now, budget address, Jim Doyle's budget Address - 'Together, we are going to address the budget deficit that spans at $5.7 billion. It will demand hard decisions, but the choices we make will reveal clearly who we are and what we value.', state budget address analysis, Taxpayers Alliance President Todd Berry with state budget address analysis, republican reaction to state budget address, Tape excerpt of Jeff Fitzgerald's comment about state budget - 'Obviously when he talks about using that money, it looks like one-time money to fill a budget hole. I think what we really need to focus on and I think is being lost, is what will come to the state assembly tomorrow. A bill that I thought the governor would actually kind of bring up something that would try and solve the current budget deficit we're under in the current biennium of $600 million that raises taxes by over a billion and a half every $10 of new taxes to $1 in lapses and cutting. Something that is very alarming to us. ', early release of prisoners as way to save money in corrections budget, Corrections Secretary Rick Raemisch appears in the studio with Fred to discuss the Corrections piece of the state budget, incl…

Directors & creators

Wisconsin Public Television (WHA-TV)

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Jim Doyle, Todd Berry, Jeff Fitzgerald, Rick Raemisch, Gundrum, Wisconsin state budget, Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, Wisconsin Department of Corrections, state budget deficit, fiscal policy, prison reform, sentencing reform, Wisconsin politics, WHA-TV

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