Claim: It's not true that Gov. Scott Walker's tax cuts are the cause of Wisconsin's current budget deficit — a false claim widely spread by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and repeated in numerous e-mails to us since we wrote about the state's budget problems earlier this week. In fact, the state's nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau estimates the tax cuts won't add a penny to the current year's $137 million deficit. Here's a typical question that we have fielded since our article ran: Q: How do the $140 billion  in tax breaks that Walker gave out in January 2011 affect the Wisconsin deficit?
Fact-check: Walker's Tax Cuts - FactCheck.org
Verdict: it's not true that gov. scott walker's tax cuts are the cause of wisconsin's current budget deficit — a false claim widely spread by msnbc's rachel maddow and repeated in numerous e-mails to us since we wrote about the state's budget problems earlier this week. in fact, the state's nonpartisan legislative fiscal bureau estimates the tax cuts won't add a penny to the current year's $137 million deficit. here's a typical question that we have fielded since our article ran: q: how do the $140 billion  in tax breaks that walker gave out in january 2011 affect the wisconsin deficit?
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Eugene Kiely
Date published: 2011-03-04T22:02:49