Jan King, the PFD isn't your paycheck or bank account. It's public money. Governor Walker did the only thing he could to attempt to balance the state budget in the fact of cowardly, self-seeking inaction on the part of the Republican majority, who would neither reform the budget nor consider new revenue sources.  (This is the same Republican majority, by the way, who've given the oil industry everything it's ever asked for--thereby creating a substantial part of the current budget crisis.)