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Scott Walker Reminds Wisconsin Voters That BILLIONS Are at Stake In Tuesday's Supreme Court Election

Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File

There's a lot at stake in tomorrow's Wisconsin Supreme Court election, including the fiscal health of the Dairy State.

In 2011, then-governor Scott Walker and the Republican legislature passed Act 10, a law that broke the stranglehold Wisconsin's public-sector unions had on the state's taxpayers and saved the state billions of dollars.

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How much?

Well:

Here's more from the MacIver Institute:

No one could have predicted the immense impact that Act 10 would eventually have on the State of Wisconsin’s financial destiny when the MacIver Institute first proposed the policy back in November 2010.

We believed then, as we do now, that Wisconsin had to eliminate collective bargaining for public employees if it ever hoped to achieve fiscal stability in its state and local governments’ budgets. The idea caught on immediately, and Gov. Scott Walker introduced MacIver’s recommendation as the budget repair bill on Feb. 11, 2011. After a brutal month-long political and cultural battle, Walker signed that bill into law as Act 10. Since then, the MacIver Institute conservatively estimates it has directly saved Wisconsin taxpayers $35.6 billion through lower taxes and higher service levels.

Every year, the MacIver Institute calculates the estimated savings achieved through Act 10’s requirement that public employees pay 12.6% of their health insurance premiums and half of their pension contributions. This only captures a portion of Act 10’s impact. The law also provided local government with the flexibility to prioritize fiscal and operational efficiency, rather than union contracts. Those indirect savings are incalculable.

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That's a lot of money that will be lost if Susan Crawford wins the election tomorrow.

We don't miss the vuvuzelas.

It's insane that unions can take advantage of taxpayers the way they do.

Judging by some of the comments, yeah.

Totally irrational.

That was a crazy time to live in Wisconsin.

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And if Susan Crawford wins, we'll go back to the days when taxpayers are on the hook for Cadillac insurance plans and pensions for public-sector union employees.

The state will be in the red before you can blink, and that means tax increases.

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