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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Outrageous Taxation Suggestion on a Saturday Night!

Last Sunday, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee Common Council President Ashanti Hamilton wrote an op-ed piece in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel touting Milwaukee as a great place to do business and the emphasizing the fact that it is the economic engine that drives the state of Wisconsin. Most of…

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Gov. Walker’s solution to funding transportation projects? Borrow, borrow, borrow!

It looks like our “fiscally responsible” Governor Scott Walker’s “plan” for funding transportation projects in Wisconsin is simple: kick the can down the road by borrowing $500 million. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel received an early look at the plan, which the DOT will submit Thursday and the governor will use…

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Scott Walker proposes sales tax “holiday” gimmick

It’s never a good sign when your “fiscally responsible” Republican governor (and “fiscally responsible” I mean not fiscally responsible at all) proposes a sales tax “holiday” gimmick, presumably as a means of boosting the economy. Sales tax holidays are common across the southern United States – 17 states from Texas…

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Governor Walker Supports 3 Year College Degree Program!

For my thousand and first post, I am going for pure snark: For his recent new found support for public education during is State of the State address, Governor Walker suggested that he’d work with the University of Wisconsin System to develop a three year degree program. Walker reiterated the…

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Johnson Controls About To Leave Wisconsin?

Breaking news from JSOnline says Johnson Controls is about to merge with Ireland’s Tyco International. Tyco is a fire protection and security company. Although the article says that local miscreant and current CEO of Johnson Controls, Alex Molinaroli, will run the new combined company, will JCI’s legal headquarters end up…

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GOP Candidates Continue To Sell Out Their Constituents!

As Zach mentioned yesterday there is a special election coming up to select a new state representative in the 99th district to replace Chris Kapenga who was recently elected to the state senate. There are four candidates in the GOP primary and nary a Democrat to be found (so much…

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What Are All Of Those Job Creators Doing With Their Tax Savings

Well they aren’t spending it on research and development or their companies’ futures or new job opportunities or anything of substance. As a matter of fact it seems that investment in research and development is heading for an all time low. Instead they think they can continue to cannibalize the…

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Where Will He Sign The Budget?

Here’s a question for all of our erudite readers out there: What high profile private invitation only location will Governor Walker pick to sign the budget?

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Scott Walker poised to sign largest budget in Wisconsin state history

This is for all those Scott Walker supporters out there who’ve deluded themselves into believing Gov. Walker is a fiscal conservative. Yesterday rubber-stamp Republicans in the State Assembly sent the 2015-17 biennial budget to Gov. Walker for his signature, and it’s worth noting that budget is the largest in the…

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