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"Wisconsin has a new state budget.Gov. Scott Walker signed the $70 billion bill into law Sunday in Pleasant Prairie.The budget cuts income taxes by $650 million, expands private school vouchers and does away with residency restrictions for most public workers.\"This is a budget that invests more in our veterans, in our infrastructure, in our workforce development. This is a budget that puts more into health care and mental health care. This is a budget that is good for the people of Wisconsin,\" Walker said.Democratic Minority Leader Peter Barca said the budget \"fails the middle class\" and will make things more difficult for those sending their children to public schools, paying property taxes and counting on basic government services.\"Even worse, though, is after all those public hearings have been held and in these after-midnight backroom deals, you shove things in there as Rep. Hintz eluded to in his earlier remarks, such as making it even worse in terms of payday lending for the average consumer,\" said Barca.Walker made 57 changes to the budget, using a veto power that allows him to cut words from sentences to change their meaning and remove individual digits to create new numbers. \u00A0His two most significant vetoes eliminated provisions creating a bounty hunter program and kicking an investigative journalism center off the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.Also included in the budget is a measure that eliminates nearly all of the duties of the state treasurer's office.The budget also names kringle as Wisconsin's official state pastry."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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