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Asking Walker the wrong questions

Submitted by Uppity Wisconsin on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 09:47
Original Author: 
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When Steve Walters was reporting for the Journal Sentinel's Madison bureau, a lot of Democrats thought he just put Tommy Thompson's news releases -- or Jim Klauser's memos -- right in the newspaper, without bothering to edit them or ask anyone for an opposing viewpoint.

So it was a pleasant surprise when Walters, now a producer at Wisconsin Eye and a WisPolitics columnist, said he has a few questions for Scott Walker about his tax cutting plans if he's elected governor.

Unfortunately, Walters is asking the wrong questions:

By “employers,” Scott, do you mean all Wisconsin businesses? (Scott? Sounds a little chummy, ain'a?)

Specifically, will you recommend cutting -- or even abolishing -- the $700 million corporate income tax?

Scott, would you freeze property taxes only on homes, or also on other types of property (manufacturing, commercial, farmland, utilities)?

Asking Walker the wrong questions

March 10, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

Uppity Wisconsin's picture

When Steve Walters was reporting for the Journal Sentinel's Madison bureau, a lot of Democrats thought he just put Tommy Thompson's news releases -- or Jim Klauser's memos -- right in the newspaper, without bothering to edit them or ask anyone for an opposing viewpoint.

So it was a pleasant surprise when Walters, now a producer at Wisconsin Eye and a WisPolitics columnist, said he has a few questions for Scott Walker about his tax cutting plans if he's elected governor.

Unfortunately, Walters is asking the wrong questions:

By “employers,” Scott, do you mean all Wisconsin businesses? (Scott? Sounds a little chummy, ain'a?)

Specifically, will you recommend cutting -- or even abolishing -- the $700 million corporate income tax?

Scott, would you freeze property taxes only on homes, or also on other types of property (manufacturing, commercial, farmland, utilities)?

Asking Walker the wrong questions about his tax slashing 'plans'

March 10, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

Uppity Wisconsin's picture

When Steve Walters was reporting for the Journal Sentinel's Madison bureau, a lot of Democrats thought he just put Tommy Thompson's news releases -- or Jim Klauser's memos -- right in the newspaper, without bothering to edit them or ask anyone for an opposing viewpoint.

So it was a pleasant surprise when Walters, now a producer at Wisconsin Eye and a WisPolitics columnist, said he has a few questions for Scott Walker about his tax cutting plans if he's elected governor.

Unfortunately, Walters is asking the wrong questions:

By “employers,” Scott, do you mean all Wisconsin businesses? (Scott? Sounds a little chummy, ain'a?)

Specifically, will you recommend cutting -- or even abolishing -- the $700 million corporate income tax?

Scott, would you freeze property taxes only on homes, or also on other types of property (manufacturing, commercial, farmland, utilities)?

Uppity Wisconsin's picture

Asking Walker the wrong questions about his tax slashing 'plans'

Submitted by Uppity Wisconsin on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 09:47

When Steve Walters was reporting for the Journal Sentinel's Madison bureau, a lot of Democrats thought he just put Tommy Thompson's news releases -- or Jim Klauser's memos -- right in the newspaper, without bothering to edit them or ask anyone for an opposing viewpoint.

So it was a pleasant surprise when Walters, now a producer at Wisconsin Eye and a WisPolitics columnist, said he has a few questions for Scott Walker about his tax cutting plans if he's elected governor.

Unfortunately, Walters is asking the wrong questions:

By “employers,” Scott, do you mean all Wisconsin businesses? (Scott? Sounds a little chummy, ain'a?)

Specifically, will you recommend cutting -- or even abolishing -- the $700 million corporate income tax?

Scott, would you freeze property taxes only on homes, or also on other types of property (manufacturing, commercial, farmland, utilities)?

Miller Park Taxation Is Tommy Thompson Legacy Material

Submitted by The Political E... on Wed, 03/10/2010 - 00:06
Original Author: 
jer45y@gmail.com (James Rowen)
The five-county Miller Park sales tax collection is a recession victim, thus is going to last some years longer than first planned, says the Journal Sentinel.

So let's remember that it was then-Governor Tommy Thompson, "Tommy the Taxer" as Bruce Murphy labeled him long ago, that was the person most responsible not only for the sales tax add-on, but the shares he assigned City and County of Milwaukee local budgets of $18 million each.

Details on this site.

And since Milwaukee city residents and property taxpayers made up roughly half the county tax base, you can fairly say that city residents got hit with $27 million on top of whatever we buy in the five-county sales tax district, plus another big piece of a separate $36 million state infrastructure dollop that Republican tax-and-spender Tommy threw in, too.
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