"So, of course, the so-called liberal ‘news’ media has taken a complete pass on covering these events. The sun came up on Monday morning to find every TV ‘news’ network, as well as every newspaper outside of Madison, covering the Oscars wall to wall with nary a mention of the political action taking place in Wisconsin."
Check out the list of co-sponsors (to-date) and if your Rep. isn’t there, please ask them to consider getting on board. If they are already a co-sponsor, thank them for their leadership!
"More Americans would rather raise taxes than reduce state employee benefits to close a budget shortfall, according to a new New York Times/CBS poll."
Silly majorities. What do they know anyhow?
"At the same time I think what the president is saying, and what we’re saying is, listen, we can’t just slash and burn our way back to balanced budgets."
No, we can’t.
"From a state that is bluer than blue, ultraviolet Vermont, comes the news that Governor Peter Shumlin, a Democratic governor with solid Democratic majorities in both houses of the legislature, will not solve his state’s fiscal problems with a tax increase. Why? As Politico reports, “We’ve already got a progressive income tax in Vermont, and we can’t get more progressive because we’ll lose the few payers that we have,” Shumlin said in between sessions at the National Governors Association meeting. “We don’t have any more tax capacity.
‘I can see New Hampshire from my house,’ said the governor, noting that Vermont is already losing business, investments and residents to its low-tax neighbor."
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