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Here's the Brown Bagger has to say today:



 

“I don’t want bureaucrats in Washington or Madison picking my family’s doctor or healthcare plan. The best way to make healthcare more affordable is through patient centered solutions and not government mandates, and I encourage everyone to contact their Congressmen and Senators and say no to this bill. As governor, I’d continue to fight against the Washington takeover of our healthcare system.”

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I went up to a real working-class event where a crowd gathered outside JP Morgan Chase to demand good jobs in lieu of excessive executive compensation and anti-financial regulatory reform lobbying after we taxpayers bailed out the financial industry.   Read More »
The latest development in the ‘Brown Bag’ gimmick has emerged (again) as it has become clear that Scott Walker’s economic plan (bailing out corporations and the already-wealthy) isn’t the thing he’s willing to recycle.   Read More »
The former CEO of Associated Bank and WMC board member made off with over $1 million upon retiring from the bank which recorded a $160 million loss. As one commenter put it, “Well, here's to a job... done.”   Read More »
Over the weekend we heard about Scott Walker’s $24,500 “Brown Bag,” Rebecca Kleefisch’s plan to cut gov’t waste by creating more gov’t, and the Sean Duffy camp kerfuffle at a Wisconsin TEA Party. Chalk it up to spring fever… or just right-wing ridiculousness as usual.   Read More »
I wonder if Ed Thompson agrees with what Grover Norquist has to say about the hardworking farmers in Thompson’s area. Namely, that they’re “welfare bums.”   Read More »

A new study from the Citizens for Tax Justice shows just how far Ryan is willing to go to sell out the middle class for the sake of America’s richest one percent.

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Ed Thompson announced today that he’d be singing Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” In his latest press release, Thompson raises the roof for Norquist and his group, Americans for Tax Reform, for championing a belief in anti-working class tax policies. Score another one for the fat cats.   Read More »
So “Wisconsin’s Free Market Think Tank” released yet another report reinforcing the pro-corporate agenda of conservatives. Big surprise.   Read More »

If there’s one thing new Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce board chair Tom Howatt and his corporate cronies at WMC enjoy more than anything, it’s a big ole handout from the government.

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During some downtime between creating super awesome and totally relevant Ayn Rand fanboy videos and posting them on Facebook, Paul Ryan managed to find time to offer up the latest GOP lead-balloon plan for propping up the rich and corporations while selling out the middle class. Ryan’s ‘Roadmap for America’ was brought to the forefront of the debate during the question and answer session between the President and House Republicans. The President even praised Ryan for offering a substantive idea, and though President Obama didn’t say so, I’m sure he was thankful to hear something from the Republicans that didn’t question his citizenship, attempt to incite racially-charged violence or contain a reference to teabagging. A breath of fresh air, if you will.

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We here at One Wisconsin Now have worked tirelessly for close to a year developing WISTAX Watch—a comprehensive expose on the pro-corporate, conservative bias of Wisconsin’s most vocal and visible tax policy think tank, the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance (WISTAX). Among the most blatant examples of its bias is the overwhelming amount of contributions to Republican and conservative candidates and committees. So just how partisan is WISTAX?   Read More »
WMC Watch News: WMC's new board chair is calling for bipartisan efforts to stimulate job growth in Wisconsin. Laughable, given the extremely partisan disposition of the organization he now heads and his own partisan campaign contributions.   Read More »
Readers of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel business section will know the name John Torinus. Torinus seems to be a busy man in the business community: he is the current chair and former CEO of Serigraph, Inc.; a current board member of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce--our state’s largest pro-corporate, anti-public investment lobby group; and a past board member and chair of the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance--the state’s most prominent pro-corporate, anti-public investment, tax research group.   Read More »
Here's the latest WisOpinion "That's Debatable" featuring One WI Now's Executive Director, Scot Ross on Doyle's State of the State address, overcoming the failed economic policies of George W. Bush, and Scott Walker’s plan to yank $2 billion out of the state (on top of the $2.7 billion deficit) and dole it out overwhelmingly to the rich and corporations -- check it out!   Read More »

Um, T. Wall pays individual taxes? Not most years



“[O]ur businesses are pass-through businesses, that is to say our taxes are paid through the individuals. I and my investors pay taxes individually on behalf of our businesses. The only business that has double taxation, which is a C-corp, is something that’s traded publicly and we’re not public businesses. We don’t pay taxes like a C-corp. We pay them individually.” [WisPolitics interview, November 2009]

So let me get this straight.

Wisconsin's facing a budget deficit of something like $2-billion, and Scott Walker's idea is to dig the hole deeper with a big corporate tax break? And the news media treat him seriously?

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Master Terrence Wall Street simply does not like the Recovery Act. In fact, he dislikes the Recovery Act almost as much as he disdains paying his fair share of taxes that the rest of us pay.


The Untaxable Terrence, has not only used his Twitter to criticize efforts through the Recovery Act to turn America around, but also featured in the Daily Reporter as having said the following:

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Did you hear the "news"? Tommy Thompson might run (possibly) for something (again) (maybe)… EXCITING… (SORT OF!)…   Read More »

Nine out of ten times isn’t just a coincidence; it’s a pattern of behavior.


And nine out of the last ten years, silver-spoon fed real estate developer Terrence Wall paid no state income tax. Because one of Madison’s wealthiest business men didn’t make any money in the last ten years. Right.


When T-Wall’s income tax doge was first revealed, we only new about the last five years, and T-Wall chalked up his non-existent tax payments to the down economy. But that certainly doesn’t explain his lack of tax payments over the last 10 years. T-Wall tried to explain it away by claiming he paid his fair share in business taxes, but we haven’t uncovered any proof of that, nor has T-Wall provided any.

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