Wisconsin is not cheap when it comes to spending on education or health care.
The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WTA) reports that over the past 20 years, from 1987-2007, state general fund expenditures increased 165.6 percent. That is an incredible increase, but the hike is even bigger for schools and health care.
Spending on school aids/credits during the past 20 years soared 249.1 percent. That computes to an annual increase of 6.5 percent. Spending on Medicaid jumped even more, 320.9 percent between 1987 and 2007, an annual increase of 7.5 percent.
As the WTA points out, “Put another way, while these two items accounted for about two-fifths (42.3%) of spending 20 years ago, they received more than two-thirds (67.8%) of all new money spent since then.”
Wisconsin does not short change its schools or health care for low-income and disabled residents. You can read the WTA report
here.
