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It is incredible that Mr.’s Vos, Weatherston and Wanggaaard would think that Wisconsin voters are so stupid that we would not notice that their chosen “statistics” on Republican passed support of public education begin just after the historic $800+ billion cuts they passed for the 2011-13 biennial budget.

According to Politifact’s review of this claim by Walker:

“We put the figures through the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation calculator and also compared our inflation-adjusted numbers to those run by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. Both calculations found that fiscal year 2003 was the highest inflation-adjusted year for state aid to schools.

That year, the raw total in state aid was $4.8 billion. But the tally by the Taxpayers Alliance found that inflation-adjusted state aid that year totaled $6.5 billion. That’s far more than the $5.6 billion and $5.9 billion proposed for the next two years in Walker’s budget plan.”

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