Wisconsin budget includes big policy issues | Defend Wisconsin

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  Wisconsin budget includes big policy issues | Defend Wisconsin

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  As the budget committee wrapped up work last week, Republicans largely avoided putting earmarks in the state budget bill but injected new and far-reaching

  
  

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    High On Quack via Defend Wisconsin

    Late Friday night, JFC approved allowing bail bondsmen in Wisconsin, sales tax exemptions for snow-making equipment and direct mail promotions and changing child labor laws. The committee also amended the bill to make it harder to get financial interest statements for public officials and limit the work that county highway crews can do, leaving more work for private contractors.

    
    
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    Defend Wisconsin

    Late Friday night, JFC approved allowing bail bondsmen in Wisconsin, sales tax exemptions for snow-making equipment and direct mail promotions and changing child labor laws. The committee also amended the bill to make it harder to get financial interest statements for public officials and limit the work that county highway crews can do, leaving more work for private contractors.