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Supply-siders now led by Trump enacted tax cuts they claimed, once again, would grow federal revenues. Instead, they are sure to add yet another trillion dollars to the national debt in the next few years.

The Child Sales Tax Rebate and the sales tax holiday continue our ongoing efforts to reduce taxes on Wisconsin citizens, and we’ll look for more opportunities to make progress in the future.

As the primary election nears, I find myself worried about progressive disunity, and the threat that it could help deliver a third term to Scott Walker.

As he seeks a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker’s campaign strategy has evoked laughter and apprehension – laughter because he is so shamelessly contradicts his own past in seeking to make nice with the progressive forces lined up against him, yet apprehension because his 10-1 money advantage and slippery history raise worries he can deceive enough voters with another change of skin.

The Daily Standard Podcast features a discussion on whether GOP candidates should embrace President Trump and Alex Jones’ removal from Facebook, Apple, and YouTube.

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Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Aug. 16: WisPolitics luncheon: WisOpinion Insiders analyze the primary results Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at The Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday, Aug. 16 with the WisOpinion Insiders, Chuck Chvala and Scott

Gov. Scott Walker knocked several Dem guv candidates for proposing to halve the state’s prison population, calling the position dangerous and based on a myth that the state’s prisons are primarily filled with non-violent drug offenders. But Dems fired back,

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP is hitting state Superintendent Tony Evers for not revoking the licenses of two educators stemming from incidents in 2015 and 2017. The new knocks come
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The project that was awarded to Wisconsin, approved by the legislature, and signed into contract by WEDC has fundamentally changed in ways that impact the project cost, investment, employment, and tax subsidy. Yet very little has been shared with the public about the impacts of these changes.

Healthcare in America is far from a free market. But as it turns out, opening up that market to even a little bit of competition has done wonders for district pocketbooks, and in turn, for all of Wisconsin’s taxpayers.

To their credit, several Dem gubernatorial contenders have mounted campaigns that think big about what a governor and a state can do.

Supply-siders now led by Trump enacted tax cuts they claimed, once again, would grow federal revenues. Instead, they are sure to add yet another trillion dollars to the national debt in the next few years.

The Child Sales Tax Rebate and the sales tax holiday continue our ongoing efforts to reduce taxes on Wisconsin citizens, and we’ll look for more opportunities to make progress in the future.

As the primary election nears, I find myself worried about progressive disunity, and the threat that it could help deliver a third term to Scott Walker.

As he seeks a third term as Wisconsin governor, Scott Walker’s campaign strategy has evoked laughter and apprehension – laughter because he is so shamelessly contradicts his own past in seeking to make nice with the progressive forces lined up against him, yet apprehension because his 10-1 money advantage and slippery history raise worries he can deceive enough voters with another change of skin.

The Daily Standard Podcast features a discussion on whether GOP candidates should embrace President Trump and Alex Jones’ removal from Facebook, Apple, and YouTube.

— Presented by the Tommy Thompson Center on Public Leadership — Get on a waiting list for this event by messaging: schmies@wispolitics.com. Tickets for this event are no longer available, but if current ticket-holders give up their seats or more become available, we will contact you in advance of the
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers **************************************** Aug. 16: WisPolitics luncheon: WisOpinion Insiders analyze the primary results Join WisPolitics.com for lunch at The Madison Club, 5 East Wilson St., Madison, on Thursday, Aug. 16 with the WisOpinion Insiders, Chuck Chvala and Scott Jensen, analyzing the primary results. Chvala, a Democrat, is a

Gov. Scott Walker knocked several Dem guv candidates for proposing to halve the state’s prison population, calling the position dangerous and based on a myth that the state’s prisons are primarily filled with non-violent drug offenders. But Dems fired back, saying Walker has mishandled the state’s youth prisons and criticized

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — The state GOP is hitting state Superintendent Tony Evers for not revoking the licenses of two educators stemming from incidents in 2015 and 2017. The new knocks come after the party has previously targeted the Dem guv candidate
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker knocked several Dem guv candidates today for proposing to halve the state’s prison population, calling the position dangerous and based on a myth that the state’s prisons are primarily filled with non-violent drug offenders. But Dems fired back, saying
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The project that was awarded to Wisconsin, approved by the legislature, and signed into contract by WEDC has fundamentally changed in ways that impact the project cost, investment, employment, and tax subsidy. Yet very little has been shared with the public about the impacts of these changes.

Healthcare in America is far from a free market. But as it turns out, opening up that market to even a little bit of competition has done wonders for district pocketbooks, and in turn, for all of Wisconsin’s taxpayers.

To their credit, several Dem gubernatorial contenders have mounted campaigns that think big about what a governor and a state can do.