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This situation isn't complicated. Wisconsin's small budget problems were in no way caused by unions, but rather in large part to Special Session Senate Bill 2, which gives preferential tax breaks for health savings accounts, and Assembly Bill 7, which is a tax break for small businesses. These pieces of state legislation turned a state surplus into $120m deficit. Just like every other Republican in the past generation, this is about spending money without increasing taxes and then cutting workers' rights in the name of fiscal responsibility. Wisconsin Republicans are using this opportunity to achieve an ideological objective.