2 results for tag: Fiscal Budgets
Taxes are Good
This is a second article promoting website and book “Government is Good, An Unapologetic Defense of a Vital Institution.”
Taxes are perhaps the most effective “wedge” issue used by conservatives to keep people voting against their own best interests. On his website Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College does a terrific job countering the conservative obsession with taxes and tax cuts with hard facts and good reasoning.
“Most conservative criticisms about the ill-effects of taxes are exaggerated or untrue. Taxes are in fact good – they are dues we pay to enjoy the numerous vital benefits that government provides ...
Sen. Kathleen Vinehout: State’s debt growing, not shrinking, under Scott Walker
Sen. Kathleen Vinehout: State's debt growing, not shrinking, under Scott Walker
April 29, 2015 10:30 am • KATHLEEN VINEHOUT | Democratic state senator from Alma
"I’m okay with the cuts,” the man wrote me. “It’s shameful to pass debt on to our children.” In the man’s message, he implies a common misconception about Wisconsin — there is no state debt.
Wisconsin owes a lot of money and the state budget proposes we borrow even more. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau reported in January that the state owed about $13.8 billion. This is slightly less than the previous year, but almost $600 million more than when Gov. Jim ...