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Since 2011 Kansas and Wisconsin have been far-right GOP models for sharp budget and tax cutting that would supposedly lead to economic growth and prosperity. However, it was all delusion. Last year, Kansas voters finally had enough.
Overzealous political promises notwithstanding, Wisconsin’s job growth over the past six years has been extraordinarily strong.
The time has come for the states to step in and force the federal government to balance its budget.
There’s no guarantee that if a convention were to be called that it would stop at a balanced budget amendment.
Besides being untested, a convention would be unpredictable and uncontrollable.
America values freedom, freedom leads to opportunity, opportunity leads to progress. That’s our story as Americans – it’s one that my dad taught me, and it’s a story that I’ll pass down when I have children of my own.
The WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala & Kanavas, debate Republican infighting over transportation funding. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
My Wisconsin Works for Everyone welfare reform package offers hands-on skills and job training.
Republicans had an opportunity to really do something meaningful about the lead crisis in Wisconsin, and they chose loyalty to their campaign donors instead.
There is reason to believe Wisconsin has what it takes to compete.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after a gunman shot a GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation’s capital.
We need a countrywide system of background checks, licensing, training and concealed carry. State level won’t cut it.
The only reason shootings remain a daily event in this nation is because those who are elected can find the convenient time to stand in front of a microphone and make a statement about the horror of such crime, but then fail to take the required steps to change laws.
You could say that the hard-right turn in Wisconsin politics began when Gableman, then an obscure rural Burnett County District Court Judge, narrowly defeated the liberal Milwaukee incumbent Justice Louis Butler.
Project labor agreements are government mandates that artificially inflate prices, thereby circumventing the very “market mechanisms” AFT Local 212 President Mike Rosen appears to praise.
The only thing that may be more anemic than Wisconsin’s performance on job creation over six years of Scott Walker’s administration is the political influence the governor now wields over his fellow Republicans in control of the state Legislature.
Business leaders’ donations to politicians help leverage a lot more in tax dollars to train business’ employees.
And they’re perfectly fine with that.
More than 40 companies from Wisconsin have established offices in Mexico, taking advantage of its market of 120 million consumers.
Repealing the prevailing wage doesn’t save the state money, it costs the state jobs.
Since 2011 Kansas and Wisconsin have been far-right GOP models for sharp budget and tax cutting that would supposedly lead to economic growth and prosperity. However, it was all delusion. Last year, Kansas voters finally had enough.
Overzealous political promises notwithstanding, Wisconsin’s job growth over the past six years has been extraordinarily strong.
The time has come for the states to step in and force the federal government to balance its budget.
There’s no guarantee that if a convention were to be called that it would stop at a balanced budget amendment.
Besides being untested, a convention would be unpredictable and uncontrollable.
America values freedom, freedom leads to opportunity, opportunity leads to progress. That’s our story as Americans – it’s one that my dad taught me, and it’s a story that I’ll pass down when I have children of my own.
The WisOpinion.com Insiders, Chvala & Kanavas, debate Republican infighting over transportation funding. Sponsored by Michael Best Strategies and the Wisconsin Counties Association.
My Wisconsin Works for Everyone welfare reform package offers hands-on skills and job training.
Republicans had an opportunity to really do something meaningful about the lead crisis in Wisconsin, and they chose loyalty to their campaign donors instead.
There is reason to believe Wisconsin has what it takes to compete.
In “Two Minutes with Mitch” radio personality Mitch Henck gives his two cents after a gunman shot a GOP congressman and several other people Wednesday at a baseball practice outside the nation’s capital.
We need a countrywide system of background checks, licensing, training and concealed carry. State level won’t cut it.
The only reason shootings remain a daily event in this nation is because those who are elected can find the convenient time to stand in front of a microphone and make a statement about the horror of such crime, but then fail to take the required steps to change laws.
You could say that the hard-right turn in Wisconsin politics began when Gableman, then an obscure rural Burnett County District Court Judge, narrowly defeated the liberal Milwaukee incumbent Justice Louis Butler.
Project labor agreements are government mandates that artificially inflate prices, thereby circumventing the very “market mechanisms” AFT Local 212 President Mike Rosen appears to praise.
The only thing that may be more anemic than Wisconsin’s performance on job creation over six years of Scott Walker’s administration is the political influence the governor now wields over his fellow Republicans in control of the state Legislature.
Business leaders’ donations to politicians help leverage a lot more in tax dollars to train business’ employees.
And they’re perfectly fine with that.
More than 40 companies from Wisconsin have established offices in Mexico, taking advantage of its market of 120 million consumers.
Repealing the prevailing wage doesn’t save the state money, it costs the state jobs.
