Dems Closed Much Larger Budget Shortfall In Wisconsin Without Destroying Worker Rights

Brian Beutler | February 18, 2011, 4:09PM

We know that Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker is framing his bid to roll back public sector worker rights as a necessary measure of fiscal austerity. And we know that's basically bogus. But how bogus? And how accurate are the dire warnings of fiscal crisis? And how standard are the tools Walker's using to address it?

The answers in order: very, overblown, and unconventional.