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Tony Evers: “A budget includes expenditure and includes what taxes are…”

Featuring: Tony Evers, Democratic | Governor of Wisconsin

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Tony Evers Discusses Wisconsin Budget and Upcoming Meetings with Republican Leaders

Published | Video Starts at 00:55

So you will be meeting with them directly? Yeah, absolutely. But it can't be just about taxes. The thing that concerns me is that a budget is A budget includes expenditure and includes what taxes are going to be bigger or smaller. And so those things work together. And the idea that somehow we're going to say, okay, this is what the taxes are going to look like now maybe we can do nothing or we have to cut something. (00:55–01:03)

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Asserts that a budget must consider both expenditures and tax changes.

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