Some Thoughts On Tax Reform

I have stated a number of times that tax reform isn’t simply the ‘biggest tax cut EVER’ as our president is wont to say. But what do you think should be in a tax reform bill? Well, I’ve got a few thoughts on it and invite all of you to…

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Observing Memorial Day 2017

I know we all enjoy Memorial Day as the first holiday of summer and share good times with our friends and families. But let’s remember why we are able to spend this time with out loved ones…it’s because of the sacrifice of many brave American men and women who died…

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Entitlements

Ok, now I am going to get all middle school term paper wonky on you: entitlement: noun the fact of having a right to something. Over the past dozen or more years, the Republicans have been spitting out the word entitlement in such a way as to alter its meaning…

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Donald Trump Needs To Pick Up the Tab On This:

So the taxpayers have to pay for two Secret Service details…one in a public building? President-elect Donald Trump confirmed Sunday that future first lady Melania Trump and their 10-year-old son, Barron, will remain in New York after he becomes president, as first reported in the New York Post. I really…

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Go Back To Africa

Go back to Africa…a little bit if vitriol that should never have survived into the 21st Century. Go back to Africa…something I wouldn’t be writing about except it’s being re-voiced by supporters of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Go back to Africa…being said to people whose ancestors have been Americans…

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Commission on the Future of the Family

Wednesday was the first meeting of our occasional governor’s new Wisconsin Commission on the Future of the Family, created “for the purpose of identifying issues and barriers relating to the overall wellbeing of families in the State, developing policies that lift individuals out of poverty, and developing and recommending polices…

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Colorado Springs, Planned Parenthood, and GOP Presidential Candidates

When is enough a f*cking nuff? The only credit that I’ll give the GOP riff raff is that no one said: ‘if only they had all been armed this would never have happened.” And they should all be taking a real clear look at their positions and their comments prior…

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UFC Video Is Just Plain Sick

I imagine some of our readers here at Blogging Blue are fans of UFC and possibly Ronda Rousey. And I can sort of understand why fans would want to dress like Rousey for Halloween. And even if we accept the violence involved in UFC…and we shouldn’t…we really really should put…

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Kim Davis Is Not Martin Luther King Jr.

It is too bad that it had to come to this…but County Clerk Kim Davis of Rowan County, Kentucky was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to issue same sex marriage licenses. I respect her right to hold her religious beliefs but as an elected official she can’t refuse…

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Thinking of Our Children’s Future Is Borrowing To Build Roads

The party who keeps saying that we need to think of our children’s future while cutting education, cutting safety net programs, cutting funds to the UW system, etc…it once again considering our children’s future by borrowing to fund the transportation fund: Gov. Scott Walker plans to rely on borrowing rather…

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