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This constant insult to our intelligence and our family finances, due to legislators not cutting the State budget like our families have to do continuously, is coming to an end. I feel that it is awful for the Wisconsin Government to put your company in the middle between us and them in the attempt to mask their tax increases on us.

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Here in Wisconsin, we’ll respectfully take the battle for our families and businesses inside the Capitol in Madison.

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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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While California’s economic struggles, such as issuing IOUs to state employees and business contractors, have been well documented, many more states are facing a combination of economic, money-management and political pressures that are driving them to the brink of collapse. The Pew report cites high home foreclosure rates, increasing joblessness, declining state revenues, poor money management, legal and political obstacles to balanced budgets and the size of budget gaps as the six factors that contribute to most of the problems.

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The final (as of October 26th) Wisconsin delegation for Continental Congress 2009 is, in order of number of votes:

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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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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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It is precisely because Governor Doyle raided the segregated transportation fund to pay for other programs that the fund is running a massive shortfall. Between 2003 and 2009, Doyle used over $1.3 billion in one-time money from the transportation fund to fuel non-transportation related spending. Doyle’s solution for the shortfall is a new tax on oil companies that has twice been rejected by the legislature.

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The story by now is familiar: employees of Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac voted down an offer to keep 800 jobs from moving to Stillwater, Oklahoma. Realizing that they had just voted themselves out of jobs, union members began calling for another vote – but IAM headquarters in Chicago immediately shut them down.

A day late and a dollar short, Governor Jim Doyle issued a statement claiming he had done all he could to keep Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac. Doyle outlined demands that Mercury Marine create and retain 2,700 jobs and maintain a significant presence in Fond du Lac for 12 years. In exchange the state would provide unspecified financial incentives.

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