Dave Zweifel: National debt is a Republican gift to the wealthy

Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor during the ’90s, notes that since the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts, wealthy Americans have financed the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans — “profiting when the rest of us pay them back.”

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Alys Brooks: Legislature could solve election funding issues

Tax dollars should fund election administration, and election workers should be paid for their vital efforts. It is now up to the Legislature to make sure the funding exists to make that happen in both ordinary and extraordinary election years, whether that’s due to a novel coronavirus or a not-so-novel economic downturn.

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Nick Ramos: What are you waiting for AG Kaul?

The fake electors in Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona who nearly overturned the 2020 presidential election are now facing criminal charges. We have no clue if the State of Wisconsin will press criminal charges against our slate of fake electors.

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Member of WisGOP Exec Committee calls for overhaul of party fundraising amid lackluster numbers

Will Martin, a Racine businessman who ran for lieutenant governor in 2022, argues the party needs to get all Executive Committee members involved in fundraising to free up Chair Brian Schimming to focus on those willing to give $50,000 or more. He also urged the party to look to more out-of-state donors after being regularly outraised by the state Dem Party in recent years.

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Dave Zweifel: National debt is a Republican gift to the wealthy

Robert Reich, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of labor during the ’90s, notes that since the Reagan, Bush and Trump tax cuts, wealthy Americans have financed the federal government mainly by lending it money and collecting interest payments on those loans — “profiting when the rest of us pay them back.”

Read More »

Alys Brooks: Legislature could solve election funding issues

Tax dollars should fund election administration, and election workers should be paid for their vital efforts. It is now up to the Legislature to make sure the funding exists to make that happen in both ordinary and extraordinary election years, whether that’s due to a novel coronavirus or a not-so-novel economic downturn.

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Nick Ramos: What are you waiting for AG Kaul?

The fake electors in Nevada, Georgia, and Arizona who nearly overturned the 2020 presidential election are now facing criminal charges. We have no clue if the State of Wisconsin will press criminal charges against our slate of fake electors.

Read More »

Member of WisGOP Exec Committee calls for overhaul of party fundraising amid lackluster numbers

Will Martin, a Racine businessman who ran for lieutenant governor in 2022, argues the party needs to get all Executive Committee members involved in fundraising to free up Chair Brian Schimming to focus on those willing to give $50,000 or more. He also urged the party to look to more out-of-state donors after being regularly outraised by the state Dem Party in recent years.

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