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Tony Evers: “If their idea is that yes, we're going to spend, we're going…”

Featuring: Tony Evers, Democratic | Governor of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 04:44

To the argument that while this is the taxpayers money, it needs to go back to them, you say what? Of course any money that we deal with is taxpayers money. So there's nothing new about that. So If their idea is that yes, we're going to spend, we're going to send every dollar back and run a deficit, that's obviously stupid. Also this past week as we start talking about the budget, you started listening sessions across the state. You'll be in Milwaukee on Tuesday. You're going to unveil your budget proposal next year. (04:44–04:55)

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Asserts that returning all surplus money to taxpayers would result in a deficit.

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