Scott Walker

School FundingMy opponent slams Scott Walker for cutting the state school funding, but there are several issues with that. First let me introduce you to Baseline budgetting.Baseline Budgetting was introduced to the US by President Nixon. It's where each year the budget of all fields would increase by a certain percentage. (http://download.premiereradio.net...) When there are budget cuts it is not the base budget being cut it is the percentage of increase being cut. ( Statement of Paul N. Van de Water, Assistant Director for Budget Analysis Congressional Budget Office on Budget Projections and Baselines before the Task Force on Budget Process Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives April 1, 1998) So we can actually see that Scott Walker actually didn't cut the budget at all, but rather the increase that wasn't really affecting anything as the increase would still be greater than the previous year, meaning that there would still be a net gain despite his budget cuts. This is explained in the chart bellow. My opponent continues to slam schools, but another thing is actually Scott Walker is pushing for School Vouchers. What exactly is that you may ask. Why it's the gradual transition from public funding to private funding of schools. The public funding will transition to these school vouchers which allow parents to choose what school they want their children to go to. Hands down private schools are way better than public school and with this plan in place parents, even from poor neighborhoods can afford to send their children to private school.Another thing that is highly ignored by many is that the schools reflect the neighborhood. Rand Paul has commenced a study which has found that generally children who come from a poor family go to the same poor school and have an increased chance to turn to crime and such as they are still in poverty and have no upward mobility in today's society. ( Paul, Rand. Taking a Stand: Moving beyond Partisan Politics to Unite America. N.p.: Center Street, 2015. Print.) Scott Walker has taken steps towards this issue by that of starting a program where 1,000 families in poverty will be placed on said vouchers. (http://www.jsonline.com...) Traffic, parks, prisons, pipeline, and Minimum WageI've decided to group these together since they're closely related.My opponent states that his traffic spending is a bad thing, but unfortunately it's sorely needed. The US Department of Transportation has reported that in the state of Wisconsin alone 14% of Bridges, 71% of roads are in unsatisfactory conditions, and that on average, these problems cost the average moterist $281 per year alone. (http://www.transportation.gov...) These are some terrible numbers and it is a good thing that this is being fixed, even if there are delays.Now on to minimum wage, my opponent slams Walker for abolitishing the MW on construction workers, but she acts like that's a bad thing. Now that the MW here is gone cost of these problems would be cheeper and tolls will fall in prices. More businesses and other things can easily move into the state providing more overall revenue and prices in the state will drop. You can see that with the money saved here this extra funding can easily be re-allocated. The same can easily be said for the parks.As for the prisons this is, once again a missing target. My opponent clammers that there are "issues," but she fails to realize that this is being replaced by survallance technology. There are still guards there, but with increased security we can see that things will be a whole lot better and safer now. My opponent argues that the pipeline is out dated and needs repare, and though that it is true. That's not a reason to close it. It gives Wisconsin thousands of jobs and if anything it needs to be fixed by the company. NOT shut down.