Wisconsin has an unusual history of striking words and numbers from bills. By deleting a hyphen and a couple numbers from the state budget this week, the governor extended a school-funding increase for more than 400 years—when it was intended for two.
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Emil Lendof/The Wall Street JournalStriking a few digits and tweaking punctuation allowed him to create a 400-year spending measure; the ‘Vanna White’ maneuver
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