Walker cuts $300 million from university budget then gives $200 million to the NBA

[hadit]

And of course this is a lie......as is all left wing nuttiness...

Scott Walker and Wisconsin s Starving University System National Review Online

In his recently introduced budget, Walker cuts state aid to the university by $150 million, then freezes that funding level for a second year (which is why it is often characterized as a “$300 million cut,” even though the university doesn’t really need to cut anything the second year; it simply must make do with the prior year’s allotment).

However, an important component of Walker’s budget plan is that the university system will get operational flexibility to make up for those cuts in the future. For instance, in theory, the university has the ability to set its own tuition, but the legislature rarely grants it that authority. Walker’s plan would give the system that autonomy in the future, as well as the ability to negotiate its own employee contracts and bond for its own buildings. This is similar to the operational flexibility that Virginia granted to its universities nearly a decade ago.

So while the university’s budget would go down slightly, in the short term it would have the ability to manage those cuts the way it saw fit, and in the long term it would be able to make up for them via tuition increases.

Further, a long-term look at the University of Wisconsin system shows a university that isn’t exactly emaciated. Here’s a chart that shows the two major components of university funding — state aid and tuition — since 2000. The last two years (2016 and 2017) represent Walker’s proposal.


Never trust the left......

Conservatives and math...

$150 million in year one plus $150 million in year two equals $300 million less than current funding

If Walker wants to give the school autonomy, it doesn't take $300 million to do that. He can give them autonomy right now....no strings attached

Worst Governor ever

Sorry.....they have more than enough money....time to stop soaking the middle class for professors who don't teach.....


So, you mean the Billion dollars they have in reserve shouldn't be touched.....


Even with Walker’s reductions, the university’s two largest funding sources have increased by 64 percent since 2000. The system also receives federal aid, gifts and grants, and other revenues, but these tend to have strings attached, so it’s not entirely fair for them to be counted in the university’s budget. If they were, though, the increase in revenues would be even greater.

It also didn’t particularly help UW’s case when legislators found the system had been sitting on nearly $1 billion in reserves, stashed away for a rainy day. Perhaps Walker’s budget will provoke them to pull out their umbrellas.

I love it when conservatives bash universities as useless and bloated as they shovel taxpayer dollars to billionaire sports team owners

If that is what happened, you might be right. But thats not what happened. As usual, you are lying

It is exactly what is happening

Giving $220 million to billionaire sports owners and slashing your university system to pay for it

Worst Governor ever

Haha. You said slashing. You lose (because it's so stupidly wrong).

 

[JoeB131]

Hence the term extortion

Professional sports are a multi billion dollar industry. They are more than capable of using their massive profits to build their own venues without extorting dollars from taxpayers

If the Bucks leave will jobs be lost? Sure all those part time ticket sellers and vendors will be out of work

But that $220 million could also be used to build roads and bridges, education, scientific research, medical care

Those are the jobs we should be worried about

That 220 million could also be used to buy half a F-22 Raptor.

I think an arena where you can have games, concerts, conventions and such would still be a better investment, though.

 

[Redfish]

Conservatives and math...

$150 million in year one plus $150 million in year two equals $300 million less than current funding

If Walker wants to give the school autonomy, it doesn't take $300 million to do that. He can give them autonomy right now....no strings attached

Worst Governor ever

Sorry.....they have more than enough money....time to stop soaking the middle class for professors who don't teach.....


So, you mean the Billion dollars they have in reserve shouldn't be touched.....


Even with Walker’s reductions, the university’s two largest funding sources have increased by 64 percent since 2000. The system also receives federal aid, gifts and grants, and other revenues, but these tend to have strings attached, so it’s not entirely fair for them to be counted in the university’s budget. If they were, though, the increase in revenues would be even greater.

It also didn’t particularly help UW’s case when legislators found the system had been sitting on nearly $1 billion in reserves, stashed away for a rainy day. Perhaps Walker’s budget will provoke them to pull out their umbrellas.

I love it when conservatives bash universities as useless and bloated as they shovel taxpayer dollars to billionaire sports team owners

If that is what happened, you might be right. But thats not what happened. As usual, you are lying

It is exactly what is happening

Giving $220 million to billionaire sports owners and slashing your university system to pay for it

Worst Governor ever

Haha. You said slashing. You lose (because it's so stupidly wrong).

RW, and his sock Jake Snarkey, are not real people. They are left wing plants who post on this and other forums as instructed by their handlers. They are given the talking points each day and post them over and over and over and over.

 

[nodoginnafight]

I know

Imagine supporting a university over a professional basketball team

Where are their priorities?

That's right cause we can't support a budget for the university and sports complexes in one state. You either support one or the other... ROFL democrats are so funny when they start talking about math. You actually believe cutting how much you give a university is not supporting that university. ROFL

In the failed Governor of Wisconsins case, he made it clear who he supports

Yeah he supports both. Duh! Were you born this silly, or did it take years of practice & education?

Actually

Unlike the failed Governor of Wisconsin, I have a college degree. I appreciate how important education is as opposed to giving taxpayer funded handouts to billionaires

Do you have a link to these handouts to billionaires or are you just blowing smoke again?

Have you been the Governor of a State? Or are you trying to say you got a degree that is worth less.

I'm thinking you patting yourself on the back for having a worthless education is pretty silly.

I think he is referring to the NBA arena that is mentioned in the headline and throughout the thread.

 

[hadit]

Sorry.....they have more than enough money....time to stop soaking the middle class for professors who don't teach.....


So, you mean the Billion dollars they have in reserve shouldn't be touched.....


Even with Walker’s reductions, the university’s two largest funding sources have increased by 64 percent since 2000. The system also receives federal aid, gifts and grants, and other revenues, but these tend to have strings attached, so it’s not entirely fair for them to be counted in the university’s budget. If they were, though, the increase in revenues would be even greater.

It also didn’t particularly help UW’s case when legislators found the system had been sitting on nearly $1 billion in reserves, stashed away for a rainy day. Perhaps Walker’s budget will provoke them to pull out their umbrellas.

I love it when conservatives bash universities as useless and bloated as they shovel taxpayer dollars to billionaire sports team owners

If that is what happened, you might be right. But thats not what happened. As usual, you are lying

It is exactly what is happening

Giving $220 million to billionaire sports owners and slashing your university system to pay for it

Worst Governor ever

Haha. You said slashing. You lose (because it's so stupidly wrong).

RW, and his sock Jake Snarkey, are not real people. They are left wing plants who post on this and other forums as instructed by their handlers. They are given the talking points each day and post them over and over and over and over.

Oh, definitely. That's why I don't take them seriously.

 

[RKMBrown]

That's right cause we can't support a budget for the university and sports complexes in one state. You either support one or the other... ROFL democrats are so funny when they start talking about math. You actually believe cutting how much you give a university is not supporting that university. ROFL

In the failed Governor of Wisconsins case, he made it clear who he supports

Yeah he supports both. Duh! Were you born this silly, or did it take years of practice & education?

Actually

Unlike the failed Governor of Wisconsin, I have a college degree. I appreciate how important education is as opposed to giving taxpayer funded handouts to billionaires

Do you have a link to these handouts to billionaires or are you just blowing smoke again?

Have you been the Governor of a State? Or are you trying to say you got a degree that is worth less.

I'm thinking you patting yourself on the back for having a worthless education is pretty silly.

I think he is referring to the NBA arena that is mentioned in the headline and throughout the thread.

Can't be true the money going to that project is a loan to build a building. The loan will be paid back through taxes from sales and payroll paid to employees of the new building. No reasoning human being would describe this as "handouts to billionaires."