Scott Walker making promises he just can't keep

Milwaukee County Executive and candidate for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker released his first 100 days agenda today outlining his promises for his first days in office if he is elected governor. One of his promises is to have a state budget that spends less and eliminates the structural deficit.

Which is pretty good of him since he is one of the people that help create massive structural deficits while he was a member the Wisconsin State Assembly. And his party was in charge of the Assembly while he was there so he can't claim someone else spent the money.

According to the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, a conservative tax group:

In fiscal 1993, state expenditures were about 0.8% more than expected revenues. That percentage rose steadily since then, hitting 6.4% in fiscal 2001.

In other words, when Scott Walker came to the state legislature, the state government was spending a little more than it was taking in, but by the time he left, it was spending a lot more than it was taking in and creating an unsustainable structural deficit.

I haven't looked at all of his voting history yet (although I will keep reviewing it for future posts) but a quick look shows that he voted for the 1997 budget and probably a few others while he was there and I'm guessing that budget was not quite a balanced budget.

Look for more on Walker's 'fiscally responsible' votes with statistics and votes noted on this blog in the near future because Republicans shouldn't keep getting away with saying they are fiscally conservative when running for office but voting for massive deficit spending when they get there.