tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post4154827324683229245..comments2024-02-20T19:58:27.733-06:00Comments on Jake's Wisconsin Funhouse: WisGOP choices - tax cuts over schools, property tax cuts for business over homeownersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-53823710941993126432020-04-23T09:17:54.257-05:002020-04-23T09:17:54.257-05:00Interesting stuff to read. Keep it up.Interesting stuff to read. Keep it up.Alexhttp://www.cutmytaxes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3426800777521979578.post-29510869727932427912020-02-16T08:04:13.646-06:002020-02-16T08:04:13.646-06:00Nothing in the GOP bill shows that the GOP legisla...Nothing in the GOP bill shows that the GOP legislative majority is interested in real, sustainable economic growth. Rather, the bill targets a select few GOP benefactors and offers yet more token tax cuts that help no one. Nor does the bill show that the GOP majority knows and chooses to do with the money precisely what government should do, and is best at doing, indeed, is constituted to do- to promote the prosperity and wellbeing of all citizens, not just a select few with the affluence to purchase GOP puppet-legislators who do their bidding. This latter modus operandi allows the wealthy to function as parasites.<br />Effective, representative government Invests in infrastructure and education, i.e., roads, municipality-owned and operated ISPs in rural areas, public education that is centered on smaller class sizes, better pay and smaller workload for teachers, more services for special needs students, more research at the university level, a university Board of Regents staffed with educators and not unqualified, ideologically horse-blinded "business" buffoons, the elminiation of university chairs that are funded by right-wing sociopaths bent on promoting trickle-down economics and other snake oil conceits.<br />These are the things that actual public servants, and not ignorant, arrogant ideologues invested only in securing a permanent GOP majority in government, can and must do.<br />We expect of today's Wisconsin GOP only a display of the Seven Deadly Sins. And boy, this infantile cabal of clowns postures and honks, preens and prances their pathology with the glee of asylum residents. These hollow caricatures have no public service ethos, no goal beyond self-aggrandizement, no higher purpose, no morals, no concern for ordinary citizens. These caricatures are in exactly the wrong place. Such pathology, such displays of addictive affluenza, require the creatures to be segregated from public life, and subject to mandatory isolation/introspection to address the social and moral vacuums they exhibit.<br />Treat these creatures like the diseased entities they really are, remove them from any and all levers of power, and representative government would rapidly grow functional, representative, and efficient. Government would be recognized as, and function once again as, a vital part of the state economy, integrated into it, not some agent acting independently of it, even actively obstructing it, which is the GOP conceit. And a whopping conceit it is.Maynard McKillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06202870333077627636noreply@blogger.com