Tommy Thompson: “Welfare reform ideas were starting to take hold in Wisconsin…”

“It was one of the reasons, not the only reason, several reasons that I won that year, mostly economic. But the Welfare reform ideas were starting to take hold in Wisconsin before anyplace else. just because other people were abusing the system, and the people in Wisconsin were fed up of paying higher taxes in order to attract more people from other states to come and get on the welfare roll.” (02:07–02:14)

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