MacIver News Minute: Act 10 Anniversary

The MacIver Report: Wisconsin This Week

Happy Act 10 Day everyone, the only true holiday that celebrates you, the Wisconsin taxpayer. It has been 12 years since Governor Scott Walker signed common sense collective bargaining reform into law here in Wisconsin and to date, this one tiny change, asking government employees at the state and local level to pay a small amount, minuscule really, towards their health insurance and retirement benefits has resulted in almost 17 billion dollars in savings. $17 billion dollars! That’s over $3,700.00 for every adult in the state. Now, some will ask, how can that be? $17 billion, there is no way? Remember that prior to Governor Walker, the vast majority of government workers in Wisconsin paid zero, nothing, nada for their plantinium benefits. Nothing. Now that they pay something, even a small amount, the savings to taxpayers really adds up.