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The 19 states that allow philosophical exemptions for persons who object to immunizations because of personal, moral or other nonreligious beliefs are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania (by regulation), Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.

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Forbes Magazine ranks Wisconsin 3rd worst in the country for best states to do business. Wisconsin fell from the 8th worst on the list last year. Forbes uses employer costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, economic climate, growth prospects, and quality of life in its ranking. Only Michigan and Rhode Island were below Wisconsin on the list.

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Survey Results as Reported by Wisconsin Assemblyman John Nygren

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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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In February of this year, Governor Doyle introduced a budget that spends $63.1 billion, raises taxes and fees $3.2 billion, and increases spending by 7.7 percent over the previous biennial budget. Since that time state revenues have dropped sharply and an additional $1.6 billion was added to the $5.7 billion budget deficit. With jobs continuing to be lost in our current recession state revenues continue to fall adding to our already huge deficit.

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The Liberty Tree Lantern has just been informed that the honorable Assemblyman from the 89th District of The State of Wisconsin, Mr. John Nygren-R is going to push the State of Wisconsin Sovereignty bill to protect Wisconsinites from the ravages of the usurping tyrants of the U.S. Government, despite his concerns that the Democrats will just forward it to committe where it will just die.

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The honorable Wisconsin Assemblyman John Nygren-R has provided The Liberty Tree Lantern with the following information:

I signed a letter in support of freezing legislator pay at its current level this week. The move would require the Joint Committee on Employment Relations to convene and consider modifying the legislator pay schedule. Over this two year legislative session, legislators are scheduled to receive a 5.3 percent salary increase dispersed in increments over that time. If the modification I support was approved, it would eliminate a 2 percent pay raise increment scheduled to go into effect January of 2011.

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At a time when families are struggling to pay bills and keep their jobs, the Governor is proposing to add to their burden by raising taxes and increasing government spending ($4.5 billion) to record levels. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau released a memo this week that detailed all of the fee and tax increases in the budget. The tax and fee increases are roughly $1.5 billion and $240 million respectively. These increases do not include $1.2 billion in tax increases that were in the budget repair bill proposed and passed by the Democrats in just 48 hours last month.

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Governor Doyle delivered his annual State of the State address this Wednesday. He discussed our state’s economic outlook, $5.75 billion deficit, and briefly touched on his priorities for this budget. This address comes at a time when jobs are being lost, businesses are closing, and consumer confidence is at an all time low.

Wisconsin’s deficit is fourth largest in the nation and number one per capita. How is it that we are in the same category as such states as California and New York? Since Governor Doyle has taken office, government spending has increased by 25 percent. Government credit card borrowing has increased by 60 percent. Doyle has grown the state employee workforce by 4,900 in the last year alone after promising to cut state employees by 10,000 by 2010. This has occurred while private sector jobs have dropped by 66,000.

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In a previous article: Notice and Demand to the Federal Government – Open Letter to WI State Assemblyman John Nygren , I describe a bill for the people of The State of Wisconsin that serves only to support and enforce the laws of The Constitution on the U.S. Government, with specific regards to the Tenth Amendment.  [...]

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