claim: wisconsin gov. scott walker’s estimate of a $3.6 billion state budget deficit is "manufactured" and a "bogus figure."
author: mark pocan
evidence_1: mar 3, 2011 ... ... gov. scott walker, argue that sharply limiting union power is essential to  reducing massive budget deficits at the state and local level. ... thousands of  people gather outside the capitol in madison to protest wisconsin gov. ... mark  pocan that an estimated $3.6 billion two-year budget shortfall was "bogus.
evidence_2: may 12, 2011 ... scott walker invented the state's $3.6 billion deficit ... pocan said walker  manufactured a fiscal crisis and that his $3.6 billion estimate was a "bogus figure.  ... point 1: moore thinks walker "made the state's fiscal situation ...
evidence_3: sep 18, 2015 ... –wisconsin gov. ... “we inherited a $3.6 billion budget deficit and we fixed it. ...  wisconsin state officials also use the word “deficit” to describe the ... a month  after walker took office, his staff's new estimate increased that figure to ... the $2  billion figure is a rounded-up version of the net tax cuts made during ...
evidence_4: governor scott walker signed 2011 act 10, ... walker inherited a $3.6 billion state  budget ... up to inflation.2 act 10 also made meaningful ... of act 10, the  wisconsin institute for law & ..... state budget deficit is a bogus figure'” politicact.  .... “gov. scott walker says wisconsin's 'teacher of the year' was laid off due to  union ...
evidence_5: scott kevin walker (born november 2, 1967) is an american politician who  served as the 45th ... walker was elected to the wisconsin state assembly in  1992, representing a district in western ..... during walker's first term as governor,  the state's $3.6 billion budget deficit was turned ...... "llewellyn scott walker,  father of gov.