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Wisconsin likely stands alone with Mississippi and other Southern states in refusing 90 percent federal expansion funding and an additional five percent federal funding for three years.
Both the flat tax idea and the movement to end the income tax are based on plans that would severely reduce state revenues, requiring cuts in many state services and crushing hopes to help public schools and give relief to beleaguered local governments. Worse, they both would place the tax burden directly on those who ought to be paying less.
The proposal passed last session and is on a fast track this session for a second vote.
Republicans and Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature are working together to make it easier to clear your criminal record.
Don’t miss the January 13, 2023, deadline for challenging FCC maps.
New Cap Times Editor Mark Treinen discusses his background and approach.
McCarthy vowed that the Republican-dominated House would conduct its business in full view of the American public.
All of the chaos and drama that has accompanied the election of the Speaker of the House, the insurrection, election deniers, etc. proves Republicans aren’t ready for a learner’s permit, yet alone the keys.
It’s a quirk in our system that an election that can only be read as a repudiation of the hard-right has ended up empowering the hard-right.
Democracy on parade is good for the nation
Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin have an obligation as Wisconsinites’ representatives in Washington to prevent the International Trade Commission from taking away game-changing treatment for PTSD.
Illegal efforts to overturn 2020 election should be prosecuted by attorney general.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, share their selections for Wisconsin’s political winners and losers of 2022. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The constitutional scholar says that this is about much more than Kevin McCarthy and the Freedom Caucus.
Making a governing majority requires some take and a lot of give.
Might we have conditions on our hands that allow or even necessitate the emergence of something that’s visited our country only once before, namely a new political party in America capable of supplanting one or both of the existing major parties?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a McCarthy loyalist, called the Republican defectors terrorists. They’ve reportedly been described as the “Taliban 19.” If this fiery rhetoric sounds familiar to Wisconsin politics watchers, it’s because it is.
Democracy is messy. It’s supposed to be. The system is designed so that broad consensus must be reached before doing important things.
Intercity passenger rail to Madison would benefit all of Wisconsin.
Governor, legislature should seek compromise on these policy priorities.
Wisconsin likely stands alone with Mississippi and other Southern states in refusing 90 percent federal expansion funding and an additional five percent federal funding for three years.
Both the flat tax idea and the movement to end the income tax are based on plans that would severely reduce state revenues, requiring cuts in many state services and crushing hopes to help public schools and give relief to beleaguered local governments. Worse, they both would place the tax burden directly on those who ought to be paying less.
The proposal passed last session and is on a fast track this session for a second vote.
Republicans and Democrats in the Wisconsin Legislature are working together to make it easier to clear your criminal record.
Don’t miss the January 13, 2023, deadline for challenging FCC maps.
New Cap Times Editor Mark Treinen discusses his background and approach.
McCarthy vowed that the Republican-dominated House would conduct its business in full view of the American public.
All of the chaos and drama that has accompanied the election of the Speaker of the House, the insurrection, election deniers, etc. proves Republicans aren’t ready for a learner’s permit, yet alone the keys.
It’s a quirk in our system that an election that can only be read as a repudiation of the hard-right has ended up empowering the hard-right.
Democracy on parade is good for the nation
Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin have an obligation as Wisconsinites’ representatives in Washington to prevent the International Trade Commission from taking away game-changing treatment for PTSD.
Illegal efforts to overturn 2020 election should be prosecuted by attorney general.
The WisOpinion insiders, Chvala and Jensen, share their selections for Wisconsin’s political winners and losers of 2022. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and Michael Best Strategies.
The constitutional scholar says that this is about much more than Kevin McCarthy and the Freedom Caucus.
Making a governing majority requires some take and a lot of give.
Might we have conditions on our hands that allow or even necessitate the emergence of something that’s visited our country only once before, namely a new political party in America capable of supplanting one or both of the existing major parties?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a McCarthy loyalist, called the Republican defectors terrorists. They’ve reportedly been described as the “Taliban 19.” If this fiery rhetoric sounds familiar to Wisconsin politics watchers, it’s because it is.
Democracy is messy. It’s supposed to be. The system is designed so that broad consensus must be reached before doing important things.
Intercity passenger rail to Madison would benefit all of Wisconsin.
Governor, legislature should seek compromise on these policy priorities.
