The Part of Drunken Sailor Will Be Played by the GOP Today
Captain Morgan, Lt. Jack Daniels and First Mate Jim Beam couldn’t spend money as insanely as Republican legislators.
Just days after a non-stop complaint-fest over Governor Jim Doyle’s “Affordability Agenda” offered in the State of the State, the GOP keeps advancing new bills that spend taxpayer’s dollars on special interest perks. Just check my post from yesterday.
Not to be outdone, today, yet another GOP bill spending money is being circulated for co-sponsors. Republican Rep. Terry Moulton has a new bill to serve up a tax credit to corporations with workplace wellness programs. The idea, patterned after a program by Coors Brewery (when I think of beer, I think of wellness), would provide up to $2 million per year to big businesses looking for a new tax break. I mean a “workplace wellness” program.
So, once again, the state has no money for helping middle class families pay for higher education, heating bills or healthcare. But we’ve got loads of cash to pass on to corporate special interests.
Can you hear them hiccup?
posted by Mark Pocan @ 12:47 PM
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3 Comments:
This is probably the most dishonest dem tactic of all. Can't you at least admit that spending money is different than never collecting it in the first place?
Please, I've heard that from the GOP for so long its lost its spin power. If you don't collect dollars you always have collected, you are then going to be short those dollars. That is a gift to big business and a real cut to state government. Republicans have to come up with something new. Everyone knows that's bs. Nice try, thanks for playing.
Speaking of Drunken Sailors...
Have you heard of Sue Jeskewitz's new plan to punish possession of child pornography? Possession would carry a 40 year max prison sentence (a Class C felony I believe). That is more than Second Degree Reckless Homicide (Class D I think). I'm just gonna guess that the 40 years in prison will not include any actual treatment of the person, just keep them there.
I don't even want to think about the cost of that bill once its passed (which it probably will). Apparently we have an unlimited amount of money to punish people and give out tax breaks to big business but no money to help average people who need it.
In all fairness, tax breaks to help lower the cost of insurance isn't necessarily bad but you can't claim then that there's no money to help the middle class and the poor.
To Anonymous: Once I stop hearing that allowing temporary tax breaks for the rich to end is a "tax increase" then we can work on your complaint. :)
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