Dear Editor: On Thursday night, GOP senators handed Gov. Scott Walker his budget, which calls for the deepest cuts to education, health care and local communities in Wisconsin history.

To say Gov. Walker’s budget was passed without raising taxes is simply not true. It is clear that this budget raises taxes on the working poor and middle classes by slashing traditionally bipartisan programs such as the Homestead Act and Earned Income Tax Credit.

By crippling education, health care and funding for seniors’ programs, Republicans have alienated countless Wisconsin families and inspired them to get active in recall districts.

At the expense of the middle class, this budget shifts the tax burden onto working people, while giving millions in tax breaks to corporations. All this, so that Scott Walker can payback his political corporate allies.

Phil Neuenfeldt

president, Wisconsin AFL-CIO

Stephanie Bloomingdale

secretary-treasurer, Wisconsin AFL-CIO