Looks like a bribe to me

Wisconsin Governor Walker is giving parents a $100 check if they answer a few questions. There is no reason for this.  From the article

“To his critics, who note that Walker is a few months away from a tough reelection bid, it looks like campaign-year bribery of the up to 671,000 families who could receive checks.
And to independent economists, it’s a mystifying piece of tax policy that has no clear long-term economic purpose and few, if any, recent comparable examples, given that tax breaks are traditionally incorporated for tax filing season — not in the months before an election.”

Sad!