
Kathleen Vinehout: Problems left for the next budget writers
Budgets are about choices. Budget writers this year chose to leave major problems for the next budget writers.
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Budgets are about choices. Budget writers this year chose to leave major problems for the next budget writers.

This budget is fair to the people of Central and Western Wisconsin; it meets our needs today, and lays the groundwork to address tomorrow’s challenges.

Just like we need police officers to keep us safe, we can also improve the security of our communities by giving our inmates the training that leads to good, well-paying jobs.

The problems that the Obamacare insurance exchanges have been facing in some states are a direct result of the uncertainty that the Trump administration has purposely created to undermine them. Some might call it sabotage.

In Evers’ Wisconsin, unions would continue to rule public education, forcing contracts on districts that make it nearly impossible to fire teachers for misconduct.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker, head of the RGA, has joined 14 other GOP governors in praising an Obamacare repeal bill that the Senate is weighing. The bill, whose authors
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he expressed frustration to Scott Walker that the guv enabled three senators to hijack the budget by promising them vetoes in exchange for their support. Still, the speaker said he expects to sign off on
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he expressed frustration to Scott Walker that the guv enabled three senators to hijack the budget by promising them vetoes in exchange for their support. Still, the

An open letter to the chairman of Foxconn.

Transparently describing the Foxconn subsidies as “subsidies” instead of “incentives” would flat out give the lie to Walker’s repeated pledge against using government to pick winners and losers.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck sets the record straight on Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal.

Why are Johnson and Ryan still downplaying the scandal? Wisconsin GOP Representative Mike Gallagher is one of a handful of Republicans publicly distressed by the Russia-Trump scandal. Other Republicans need to put country before party.

Republicans in the White House and Congress have not tipped their hands on tax reform, other than to say they want corporate and personal income taxes to go south instead of north. Most importantly, they have not expressed themselves on one of the major drivers of the Trump aberration: a middle-class frustration with the inequity on how the nation’s economic pie is split up.

Budgets are about choices. Budget writers this year chose to leave major problems for the next budget writers.

This budget is fair to the people of Central and Western Wisconsin; it meets our needs today, and lays the groundwork to address tomorrow’s challenges.

Just like we need police officers to keep us safe, we can also improve the security of our communities by giving our inmates the training that leads to good, well-paying jobs.

The problems that the Obamacare insurance exchanges have been facing in some states are a direct result of the uncertainty that the Trump administration has purposely created to undermine them. Some might call it sabotage.

In Evers’ Wisconsin, unions would continue to rule public education, forcing contracts on districts that make it nearly impossible to fire teachers for misconduct.

Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers Advertisement The Madison Club From WisPolitics.com … — Gov. Scott Walker, head of the RGA, has joined 14 other GOP governors in praising an Obamacare repeal bill that the Senate is weighing. The bill, whose authors include U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, would eliminate Affordable Care
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he expressed frustration to Scott Walker that the guv enabled three senators to hijack the budget by promising them vetoes in exchange for their support. Still, the speaker said he expects to sign off on the budget tomorrow, a step needed before Walker can add
Exclusively for WisPolitics Subscribers From WisPolitics.com … — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he expressed frustration to Scott Walker that the guv enabled three senators to hijack the budget by promising them vetoes in exchange for their support. Still, the speaker said he expects to sign off on the budget

An open letter to the chairman of Foxconn.

Transparently describing the Foxconn subsidies as “subsidies” instead of “incentives” would flat out give the lie to Walker’s repeated pledge against using government to pick winners and losers.

In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck sets the record straight on Wisconsin’s Foxconn deal.

Why are Johnson and Ryan still downplaying the scandal? Wisconsin GOP Representative Mike Gallagher is one of a handful of Republicans publicly distressed by the Russia-Trump scandal. Other Republicans need to put country before party.

Republicans in the White House and Congress have not tipped their hands on tax reform, other than to say they want corporate and personal income taxes to go south instead of north. Most importantly, they have not expressed themselves on one of the major drivers of the Trump aberration: a middle-class frustration with the inequity on how the nation’s economic pie is split up.