"By the end of this budget I'm in right now, taxes will have been cut $4.7 billion in my state."
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Scott Walker touts $4.7 billion in tax cuts. Is he right?
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Glenn Beck, "Gov. Scott Walker talks Immigration, GOP Establishment, ISIS with Glenn Beck [VIDEO]," uploaded by SBPA Client, August 17, 2015.
A letter from Bob Lang, director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau , to Sen. Scott Fitzgerald, "Tax Law Changes Since January 2011," dated August 5, 2015.
Phone conversation with Bob Lang, director of the Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, August 18, 2015.
Lucas Daprile, "Return budget surpluses to taxpayers," PolitiFact Wisconsin, August 13, 2015.
Jason Stein, "Scott Walker touts state tax cuts in run for president," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 15, 2015.
Phone Conversation with Jon Peacock, director of the Wisconsin Budget Project, August 18,2015.
Phone conversation with Todd Berry, president of Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, August 19, 2015.
Dave Umhoefer, "Gov. Scott Walker says he has generated $2 billion in tax cuts," PolitiFact Wisconsin, March 12, 2014
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