The 2.7 economic multiplier is absurdly high. Here’s why.

What passed in JFC is nothing short of a most extraordinary legal device which would allow for Foxconn lawsuits to not head to appeal trial courts but rather get directly moved to the state Supreme Court. The move is not well-reasoned and allows for a thumb to be placed on the scales of justice.

Environmental issues has almost disappeared from the public debate, except when large scale projects come to the fore, like the proposed, but now defunct, GeoTac iron mine in Northwestern Wisconsin or the pending Foxconn manufacturing plant in Southeastern Wisconsin.

The US has horribly moved from overly optimistic hope into morass and cynicism.

If Trump’s ultimatum to Congress gets the House and Senate to approve a legal framework for determining who stays and who goes, it actually will have been a success.

For a hundred years, Wisconsinites traveled a long journey to keep a minimum living wage. Now is it’s our turn to take up the struggle and advocate for our neighbors and friends.

Two young Assembly reps in each party, two very different tales.

Our self-destructive tax code costs Americans millions of jobs, trillions of dollars and billions of hours spent on compliance and paperwork.

We need leaders who will stop picking Washington over Wisconsin and lead the way on real reform that will cut taxes, simplify the tax code and unleash the economy nationwide just like we’ve done here.

It’s ironic that here we are on Labor Day where, while state legislators and the governor can’t bring themselves to give a boost to the lowest paid among us, they are about to OK nearly $3 billion in assistance to a huge corporate conglomerate with a history of awful labor relations.

Working people must continue to join together for higher paychecks and the ability to balance life with work.

Trump’s lying is blatant; Walker’s is persistent and just as devious.

It’s all about his love of Trump and the media spotlight. Not necessarily in that order.

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In light of Speaker Ryan’s professed concern about marginal tax rates, it is extremely disappointing that he has supported ACA repeal and replacement bills that would cause a huge increase in health insurance costs for low-income families who have wage increases that put them over the income limit for Medicaid

In the last three budgets the destruction of the historic tax credit has been defeated, but it appears we are at the cusp of a “victory” for Walker limiting the credit for communities all over Wisconsin in planning phases for redevelopment.

As of now, the hybrid-electric tax is just a bad idea floated by a governor and a Legislature that imagines the people driving those vehicles as voters who would not vote for them anyway.

The users of roads should pay for those roads, maintenance and new lanes, no matter what kind of vehicles they’re driving.

Someone leaks incomplete report to Journal Sentinel, which slams Chief Flynn with it.