Ah, so clever these anti-public sector Wisconsin Republican officials, their hands on state agencies and budgets and the law and ready always to serve special friends and donors.
Without consulting the agencies involved, their scheme - - almost as convoluted as another one to upend the tax system and keep building roads too big to pay for - - involves having a state land stewardship public purchase fund they hate spend down its resources and borrowing authority by buying 76,000 acres of land which another state public lands commission already owns.
Goodbye, stewardship fund, so Mission Accomplished there.
But wait, there's more.
The proponents say their 'plan' is not another one of their privatization schemes - - like the groundwater ownership program the Legislature just handed in perpetuity to Big AG and the large groundwater users - - the proponents say with a straight face because the 76,000 acres would be transferred to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and not sold to private owners.
Goodbye, stewardship fund, so Mission Accomplished there.
But wait, there's more.
The proponents say their 'plan' is not another one of their privatization schemes - - like the groundwater ownership program the Legislature just handed in perpetuity to Big AG and the large groundwater users - - the proponents say with a straight face because the 76,000 acres would be transferred to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, and not sold to private owners.
Before you say, "whew," I noted the other day that the DNR Gov., Walker is operating with his signature 'chamber of commerce mentality' is busy selling public land and had already sold more than the 10,000 acres which the Legislature had authorized.
It's appropriate that some of the property which the Republican land barons would sell is swamp land.
It's appropriate that some of the property which the Republican land barons would sell is swamp land.