EARLY RETIREMENT PLAN IS HUMANE WAY TO SAVE MONEY.(EDITORIAL)(Column)

From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Date: April 6, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Robert W. Wirch and Mark Meyer

Recently there have been several stories in your paper regarding our proposal to reduce the size of state government and help close our state's budget gap with an early retirement plan.

Some legislative Republicans and members of the governor's administration are going to great lengths to try to kill a creative, common sense way to cut state spending and reduce the size of government -- without painful layoffs of state wo...

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