Tuesday, August 22, 2017

WisGOP budget dysfunction, as the Tweeters fly

Earlier today, it looked like out long, statewide nightmare might soon be over. THe Wisconsin State Journal's Mark Sommerhauser dropped this bit of information from a Scott Walker PR appearance this morning.



Sommerhauser went on to report that Walker said the deal included a reduction (but not elimination) in the personal property tax that is mostly paid by corporations, and that a new tax on hybrid vehicles might be put in to reduce borrowing for roads.

After Walker's comments, Joint Finance Committee co-chair John Nygren gave more details to the media ahead of today's Foxconn hearing, but said things weren't quite wrapped up.





And then Assembly Speaker Robbin' Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald met this afternoon at the Capitol....and emerged singing a different tune.







So was Scotty just running his mouth and being foolish, or was he LYING and trying to give a false image of confidence and competence to the rubes? Either way, he looks like garbage now.

Instead of finishing the budget, the JFC will be debating and trying to pass another unpopular GOP gimmick in the next 2 weeks.



So while road projects stall out, and caregivers continue to be unpaid, and schools and local communities are playing a guessing game that likely will lead to lower services in the next year, the 8-week budget impasse inside the GOP seems like it'll continue past Labor Day.

If I believed that WisGOP were adults that actually actually cared about not wrecking the state and keeping things functional, I'd say that Dems should be going public with their budget proposals to try to pressure the GOPs into moving ahead and/or adopting some of them. But with the WisGOPs being the child-like, cynical fools they are, they'd try to bring the Dems down with anything they did, and then call their bad budget "bipartisan", like Walker was doing with the Fox-con today.

There's no reward from voters for doing the right thing, so the Dems' best strategy is to sit back and let the GOPs keep messing things up. What a clown show. GET THESE WISGOP FOOLS OUT OF HERE.

EDIT- Great response by a guy who's had quite a few of them recently- State Rep. Jimmy Anderson (D-Fitchburg)

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  1. JeffAugust 23, 2017 at 10:08 AM

    So it's OK to boost revenue from people who drive lighter and more efficient cars (perceived as mostly urban and more liberal types) but not from the heavy trucking that actually wrecks the roads or the commercial activity that fills and empties the trucks or the population who benefits from that commerce.

    The financing formula for transportation is wrong-headed. Roads and infrastructure benefit everybody; the revenue collection should be spread as evenly as possible.

    In a larger sense, I see we're moving towards two party governance again; it's just that they're both Republican.

    Maybe I'm just engaging in wishful thinking here, but I think Democrats need to get out there with a plan to promote for the 2018 election. In a contest between a divided and sometimes negative voice vs no voice at all, I don't see the party with no voice winning anything.

    They're not part of the problem. They're not part of the solution.
    They aren't even part of the conversation.

    I just can't see that as a winning formula.

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    1. Jake formerly of the LPAugust 23, 2017 at 11:53 AM

      If it was August 2018, I might agree. But it's not, and right now, I think we need to be showing people why the current GOP way is failing.

      Throwing massive amounts of taxpayer dollars at Foxconn and voucher schools instead of investing in our community's roads and schools is a good start. Add in this state's lousy record on jobs since 2011, and looming budget deficits due to past GOP recklessness, and you can establish that THINGS MUST CHANGE IN WISCONSIN.

      Then in the months before the primary and general elections, Dems can say what they'll change for the better. And anything resembling sanity will be an improvement at this point.

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