It’s amazing that Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker is posing for holy pictures and parading himself around as some sort of tax reformer.

Remember, it was Walker who put together a budget that was reliant on the State to allow him to use Milwaukee County’s 0.5% sales tax for operating expenses. At the time, it wasn’t even legal to do so but Walker counted on these revenues and made his proposed budget contingent on the State allowing the change that would allow him to raid those funds.

The Sales Tax dollars were supposed to be used for capital and capital improvement (infrastructure) related expenses.

Now Walker is saying that the money would be used for things other than property tax relief. Apparently he says this because he has first hand experience robbing Peter to pay Paul. The sales tax was not enacted to pay for day to day operating expenses and Walker knows it.

For those who are saying that Walker is standing up against the likelihood that some politician will steal the money away, you need only to look at Walker.

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coming tomorrow: If Walker were a Democrat, CRG would be shouting “recall” for his newest pension debacle