It was an appropriation not a budget item and therefore did NOT reduce the budget at all! What Walker is trying to do is save the money for a 60B pipeline that most everyone knows can't pay for itself (except him). Most Governors where there is a 'crisis' implement a hiring freeze and we all know this Governor has not done so and continues to hire his cronies to build a pipeline with some salaries at 1M a year! Then continues to hire others for positions and then keeps the old on as well. He simply is about himself so he can go down in the record books as the builder of a pipeline. He cares about no one but himself and his legacy. When the budget is truly cut enough (that includes State worker layoffs) then some of the PFD earnings should be used. Income taxes should not be used until budget cut, PFD earnings used up to and including the entire dividend. Why in the sam hill should we have two entities in the revenue division? one paying out money and the other collecting taxes.