WMC Cost Counter
Using non-partisan sources which track lobbying efforts, campaign spending and determine the potential fiscal impact of legislation, WMC Watch calculated the potential total cost to the state of Wisconsin from WMC. This includes each bill supported by WMC that would give taxpayer financed handouts to corporate interests, shift the tax burden away from corporations, or give tax breaks to the wealthy. It also includes each bill WMC opposed that would have increased payments from Wisconsin’s corporations for the services they so willingly use but are so reluctant to finance.
Since 2001, the potential cost of WMC’s agenda to the state treasury topped $9.9 billion – an average of $30 every second of every day of every month of each year. Stated simply - that's a cost of $1800 for every man, woman and child in Wisconsin
Monetary costs are one part. WMC also spends money lobbying and advertising against common sense, quality-of-life legislation that would make Wisconsin an even better place to live and work.
WMC Watch provides this information in hopes that Wisconsinites, when presented with the facts about WMC's true cost, can make up their own minds about the influence and power wielded by this powerful, corporate-friendly group.
Learn more about WMC's legislative agenda here.
[Source: Wisconsin Government Accountability Board]