Candidate Fitzgerald Playing Tax Cut Parlor Games

Actual state income tax revenues for the current fiscal budget period are now expected to exceed the budgeted revenues by $753 million. Under the current budget some of the excess will go toward technical training and additional funds going to pay down the state’s current debt. The balance would accrue…

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Sarah Sanders Says That The House Isn’t Smart Enough To Understand Trump’s Taxes.

Well just because she isn’t, doesn’t mean the House isn’t. And I would bet that neither she nor the president are smart enough to figure mine out…and they are particularly straight forward and uncomplicated…well except the new forms for 2018 suck. But any number of people are overlooking one of…

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Whither MKE County: Tearing Down the Domes

I am not going to weigh in on tearing down the Domes in this blog…or whether to move the Milwaukee Public Museum out of downtown…I have opinions but that is not what I am going to rant about in this post. The MPM and Mitchell Park Domes org put together…

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The President’s Take On The Tax Cuts:

President Trump never really pretended that the GOP was working on Tax Reform as he kept touting the new bills as the biggest tax cuts in history…something that isn’t even true anyway. But here’s what he had to say in Thursday’s White House email: “As we speak, Congress has reached…

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Tax Cuts Don’t Equal Tax Reform!

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) has been wanting to pull a Tax Reform initiative out of his hat for years. And now the talk around tax reform is front and center as the GOP controls both houses of Congress and the White House. But the current resident of…

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Did You Get a 8.5% Raise Last Year?

No? Neither did I…and I didn’t make $11.5 million in salary, stock and bonuses like the average CEO. That CEO made 347 times more than the average employee in their firm. Do you think any CEO is worth that? Is your CEO worth 347 times your worth to the company?…

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Yes or No on Walker budget items #4

In a piece at Urban Milwaukee, Steve Walter posits 12 Key State Budget Decisions with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at each one…one at a time: 4.Self-insure for health care: Beginning Jan. 1,…

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Yes or No on Walker budget items #2

In a piece at Urban Milwaukee, Steve Walters posits 12 Key State Budget Decisions with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at each one…one at a time: 2.UW tuition freeze: Should a four-year freeze…

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Yes or No on Walker budget items #1

I am going to work with this suggestion from Steve Walters piece at Urban Milwaukee titled: 12 Key State Budget Decisions. He posits 12 key items with brief descriptions from Governor Walker’s 2017-2019 biennial Wisconsin budget and asks if we are for or against. I will take a stab at…

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Kansas: The Canary in the GOP Goldmine

Governor Sam Brownback of Kansas was the poster boy of supply side economics…cutting taxes to stimulate the Kansas economy in a pure experiment of Reagan economics. Only it hasn’t worked out the way he and the GOP planned…in fact it has turned out exactly as you would expect when you…

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