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Offshore Tax Havens – Say Hello To The Tax Man
Death and taxes are the two main constants in life. While most of us worry when April 15th comes a knockin’, the corporate CEOs take the Bobby McFarrin approach – Don’t Worry, Be Happy. The reason for...
View ArticleThings That Appall Me
Pro Right-to-Work wingnut Walker supporter, Diane Hendricks, star of the now-famous video where Walker declares his intent to “divide and conquer,” paid no corporate income taxes in 2005, 2006, 2007...
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Corporate Tax Rates – Not So High, Mr. Ryan
At least not according to Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy who surveyed 280 multi-billion-dollar companies and found the effective tax rate averaged 18.5%, not...
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Is He Lying or Stupid?
Paul Ryan (R- Wall St.) likes to tell anyone who will listen that we have the highest (or second highest) corporate tax rate in the world. H/T Bob Cesca: The United States actually has the second...
View ArticleWhat We Can Look Forward To As Wisconsin Is Open For Mining Business.
Yes I know that the Gogebic Taconite mine never materialized. But the end goal of neutering environmental regulations remains intact and at some point when taconite prices are again on the rise,...
View ArticleThe Irony In The Feds Worrying About Clinton’s Email Security
I am not going to go into Hillary Clinton’s ‘rogue’ email server issues at this point. I just find the recent concern over the security of her server and emails to be incredibly hypocritical given...
View ArticleSen. Ron Johnson raises money in Wyoming with Dick Cheney
Apparently Wisconsin’s not a great place for Republican Sen. Ron Johnson to raise money, as he spent last night raising money at a big-bucks fundraiser with “special guest” Dick Cheney. Jackson Hole, a...
View ArticleState officials to award-winning chef/burgeoning brewer: “You can take this...
This is why we can’t have nice things in Scott Walker’s Wisconsin. Justin Aprahamian, chef-owner of Sanford Restaurant and winner of Best Chef Midwest from the James Beard Foundation in 2014, plans to...
View ArticleNew polling shows Scott Walker in third in Iowa
I’ll admit it…this makes me smile. After leading the GOP presidential field in Iowa for months, Gov. Scott Walker is no longer on top in the latest polling. In a survey released Wednesday by CNN/ORC,...
View ArticleDissent and Cookies: The 2015 Official UW System Faculty Exodus Update Part...
From the fabulous Dissent and Cookies blog comes this blog (reprinted with permission) shedding light on the exodus of faculty from the UW System in the wake of funding cuts to the UW-System by...
View ArticleSen. Kathleen Vinehout: Should Tax Dollars Go to Companies Just to “Create...
From my email inbox comes the latest newsletter from Democratic State Senator Kathleen Vinehout. Imagine how private firms do business with the State of Wisconsin. The companies provide something of...
View ArticleLet’s examine Gov. Scott Walker’s record of “government reform”
One of the “accomplishments” Gov. Scott Walker has been touting as he’s traveled the country promoting himself for president is that he is a government reformer. In the case of the Wisconsin Economic...
View ArticleVIDEO: Ron Johnson still isn’t listening to Wisconsin
From the Democratic Party of Wisconsin comes this video noting just how little time Republican Sen. Ron Johnson has spent in Wisconsin actually listening to the people he’s supposed to be representing....
View ArticleScott Walker’s WEDC acted politically instead of prudently? Say it ain’t so!
According to a recent report in the Wisconsin State Journal by Matthew DeFour, WEDC, the public-private hybrid job creation agency created by Gov. Scott Walker in 2011, in many cases acted...
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Ron Johnson’s shameless copy-catting of Russ Feingold – Part 2
As I’ve noted here before incumbent Republican Senator Ron Johnson is among the most vulnerable incumbents facing reelection in 2016. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Johnson is facing a tough reelection...
View Article#BlackLivesMatter activists interrupt Bernie Sanders event in Seattle
On Saturday Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders was speaking at a campaign event in Seattle, Washington when protesters from a local Black Lives Matter chapter took over the stage and...
View ArticleRepublicans taking us back a century or two
Wow, where do these guys come from? Today I’m talking about Tom Tiffany and Andre Jacque, two of the most misguided legislators to hold office in Wisconsin in many years. Let’s start with Sen. Tom...
View ArticleReport: Michigan Republican elected officials used their taxpayer-funded...
But remember…..Republicans are the party of “responsible government” and “family values!” A Michigan state representative distributed a fake e-mail that suggested he had sex with a male prostitute so...
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