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Yesterday, the Senate passed a budget that was approved by a Conference Committee on a 17 to 15 vote with your senator, Dave Hansen voting in favor. A Conference Committee is a panel of legislators formed to iron out differences between the Senate and Assembly when they pass different budgets. The budget that came out of that committee raises taxes over $2 billion, property taxes an additional $1.5 billion, and increases government spending by nearly 7 percent. As well, there are non-fiscal policy provisions that changed in this budget compared to the Senate and Assembly versions, including those dealing with automobile insurance. This change is very important for Northeast Wisconsin drivers who, if it is enacted into law, will be paying higher insurance rates to subsidize high risk drivers in areas like Milwaukee.

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House Democrats narrowly won a key test vote Friday on sweeping legislation to combat global warming and usher in a new era of cleaner energy. Republicans said the bill included “the largest tax increase in American history.”

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Over this and the next two years, state budget legislation enacted or pending would increase taxes and fees $2.82 billion, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.

Of the $2.82 billion in increases, $1.11 billion became law in February as 2009 Act 2. The bulk of these revenues stems from a new tax on hospitals, additional taxes on multistate companies (”combined reporting”), and expansion of sales taxes on prewritten computer software.

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Hasn’t anyone in Wisconsin ever been taught in “public” schools that business never ever pays sales or any other taxes? What makes so many people so ignorant as to think that businesses ever pay any form tax?

Business taxation is NOTHING MORE than a way for State Government to tax ordinary citizens who haven’t had proper education. All business and sales taxes, of all types, including but not limited to, sales, payroll, Social Security, Medicare, Corporate, self-employment, in short all taxes go into the final cost of all products and services paid for by the average citizen and not any business.

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