Posted in Democratic Party, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Income Taxes, Republic, Republican Party, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, We The People Congress, Wisconsin, taxation on Nov 14th, 2009 No Comments »
On October 1, Wisconsin began taxing downloads from the internet for the first time in state history. This 5 percent sales tax does not include local or stadium taxes. This tax is estimated to take $11 million from individual’s wallets and put it in the hands of government. It was passed in the budget repair bill February of this year.
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Posted in Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Government Corruption, Income Taxes, Inflation, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, Stimulus, WI, Wisconsin, economy, stimulus bill, stimulus package, taxation on Sep 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
But when cigarette and telephone taxes went up yesterday by $415 million, you could have heard a pin drop in Madison. All totaled, Doyle’s budget raised taxes and fees by $2.1 billion including:
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Posted in Bailouts, Constitution, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Illegal Imigrants, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Menominee, Michigan, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recession / Depression, Republic, Republican Party, Revolution, Senate, Social Security & Medicare, Social Security and Medicare, Stimulus, TARP, U.S. Government, Universal Health Care, congress, economy, rights, stimulus bill, stimulus package, taxation on Aug 28th, 2009 2 Comments »
With federal deficits estimated to be running in the trillions—not billions—of dollars and tax revenues way down, the government has no other way to fund this plan without increasing taxes on all Americans including working class families. More honest Democrats agree. “There is no way we can pay for health care and the rest of the Obama agenda, plus get our longterm deficits under control, simply by raising taxes on the wealthy,” Isabel V. Sawhill, a former Clinton administration budget official, told The New York Times. “The middle class [that’s you] is going to have to contribute as well.”
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Posted in Constitution, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Income Taxes, Morality and Virtue, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Republic, Revolution, Second Amendment, Social Security & Medicare, Social Security and Medicare, The Matrix, U.S. Government, United Nations, Universal Health Care, rights, state sovereignty, taxation on Aug 27th, 2009 11 Comments »
The Liberty Tree Lantern may comment on this, by edit, later; but for now we will only report this insanity and actual video of President Barack Obama’s own statement that he is building a CIVILIAN DEFENSE FORCE as powerful and well funded as the U.S. Military. Now we leave you with several videos for your consideration. One of the videos is more or less a video comment and our analysis:
Here we report, you decide and consider for yourself:
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Posted in Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on Jul 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Wisconsin is in a competition with 49 other states for job creation and retention. Based on the performance of our leadership this year we are losing that competition. There are jobs moving and being created during this recession in the United States. They are just in other states like Texas, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Unfortunately, some of those jobs moved and were lost from right here in Wisconsin.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on Jul 20th, 2009 No Comments »
From the left, the Center on Wisconsin Strategy published its annual report in late 2008 with this unhappy summary:
“The national economy has grown more rapidly than Wisconsin’s, leaving the state’s per capita income more than $2,500 behind the national [average].”
From the center, the non-partisan Competitive Wisconsin group reached a similar conclusion in its 2008 benchmark report: “Wisconsin has moved further away from the national average in per capita income, number of new jobs created and number of new private businesses.”
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Posted in Constitution, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Economic Collapse, Energy, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government Corruption, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Menominee, Michigan, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, Senate, Tea Party, U.S. Government, WI, Wisconsin, congress, economy, national security, rights, taxation on Jun 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
The U.S. House of Representatives may vote this Friday on the “American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009” (the Waxman-Markey bill). We need the many voices of the Partnership for America’s Energy Security to write and call your legislators, urging them to oppose this harmful and misguided legislation.
Addressing climate change is an important issue, and the U.S. oil and natural gas industry has made substantial commitments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The industry supports balanced legislation to reduce greenhouse gases and replace the patchwork of state and federal regulatory programs, but the Waxman-Markey bill is not the answer. This hastily drafted legislation would:
Significantly increase consumer and business costs for gasoline and other fuels;
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Posted in Revolution on Jun 8th, 2009 No Comments »
Why is this budget fatally flawed? There are numerous reasons and many of them are very complex. Too complex to explain in a few paragraphs. In no particular order, these are just a few of the problems I have with this budget and how it hammers the middle class – the very segment of the population the Democrat majority purports to protect.
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Posted in Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Income Taxes, Marinette, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, taxation on May 29th, 2009 1 Comment »
During the 1990’s, Wisconsin enacted legislation to encourage recycling and waste reduction, including prohibiting certain items from being placed in landfills and establishing financial assistance payments to local governments to operate local recycling programs. To fund these programs, businesses and municipalities pay a variety of surcharges and tipping fees on every ton of solid waste disposed of in landfills throughout the state. Essentially, tipping fees are taxes paid on garbage.
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Posted in Bailouts, Corruption and/or Public Mind Control, Democratic Party, Economic Collapse, Financial Crisis, Freedom, Government Corruption, Health Care, Income Taxes, Inflation, Lobbyists / Special Interests, Marinette, Morality and Virtue, Peshtigo, Public Concerns, Public Schools, Recall Doyle, Recession / Depression, Republic, Revolution, State Government, State of Wisconsin, WI, Wisconsin, economy, pork barrel, rights, taxation on May 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
“You’ll recall that [Gov. Jim] Doyle announced in late November that [the state] would eliminate these payments,” wrote Mr. or Ms. Throat. “Seems like a lot of them got in just under the wire.”
The list itemizes “discretionary compensation awards” — bonuses — to 82 state employees, including the UW System. A few are lump-sum payments: $1,000 here, $500 there, $3,150 to one UW-Madison supervisor for “new duties.” But most are per-hour salary adjustments for merit, equity, new duties and retention that extend permanently into the future. AIG execs, eat your heart out.
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