Top 10 General Fund Programs Comprise 81.3% of State of Wisconsin 2009-2011Budget

Source:  Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau

$22,505,175,700.  Total budget for 10 top programs.

$27,671,651,200.  Total budget for all general fund programs.

These totals do not include segregated and federal funds.

[Note on #6.  See Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau Informational Paper 21 (January 2009), "State Property Tax Credits:  School Levy, First Dollar, and Lottery and Gaming Credits" for an explanation of this general fund program.]

[Note on #7.  As I read it, appropriation obligations bonds = debt service payments.  See Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau Informational Paper 74 (January 2009),  "State Level Debt Issuance", page 15.]