FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 16, 2011
Contact – Senator Scott Fitzgerald, (608) 266-5660

Sen. Fitzgerald Statement on JFC Passage of Budget Repair

MADISON, WI – The Joint Finance Committee voted tonight to send Gov. Walker’s Budget
Repair Bill to the full Legislature. Sen. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau), released the following
statement in response:

“There are no easy solutions to the problems our state is facing.

The Finance Committee voted tonight to finally reign in the constant expansion of
government, and they did it without massive layoffs or tax hikes. They didn’t do it the
easy way; they did it the right way.

Wisconsin is truly leading the country in bringing the public sector back in line with the
private sector.

In Wisconsin, about 15 percent of the population is a member of a union. There’s
another 15 percent, though, that is either unemployed or underemployed for economic
reasons. We’re working to grow the economy, not the government.

The bill for decades of irresponsible spending has come due. This is how we’re going to
pay it.”

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