In their article on Scott Walker declaring his candidacy, Minneapolis Star-Tribune's quotes Rick Wiley, his top political advisor: "If you could accomplish half of what he's done in Wisconsin in Washington, D.C., you would go down as one of the greatest presidents ever."
What would such a presidency look like mathematically? Let's consider below in red.
The article notes that "Walker cut income and corporate taxes by nearly $2 billion."
One wonders what then had to be cut from the budget to make up for that enormous shortfall. Helpfully, the article then says:
His budget this year, which plugged a $2.2 billion shortfall when he signed it into law Sunday, requires drug screenings for public benefit recipients, expands the private school voucher program, freezes tuition at the University of Wisconsin while cutting funding by $250 million and removing tenure protections from state law.
That's Walker's America for you. We don't need no education. We do need to shame the poor, though.
The thing is, like the ads for Ginsu knives, that's not all. Walker also:
legalized the carrying of concealed weapons, made abortions more difficult to obtain, required photo identification when voting and made Wisconsin a right-to-work state.
Seeing as Minnesota is thriving for doing everything the opposite of Wisconsin, one could read the article with a certain amount of schadenfreude, but Minnesotans are too nice for that.