Weekend Reading

Tucker Carlson Endorses White Supremacist Theory by Name

Republicans Throwing Away Our Money

The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Milwaukee Tool's downtown project proceeds as key committee approves $12M in city subsidies

Anderson Cooper: Pretty much everything Sen. Johnson said is dangerous

SmithGroup Will Design Harbor District Riverwalk

How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality

The New Gerrymandering Scheme

West Allis is the Hottest City in Wisconsin

Kavanaugh an ill-considered choice to pen ruling on incorrigible childhood offenses

Sotomayor gives blistering dissent to Trump SCOTUS appointees who find juvenile not worthy of parole

Bill Requires MPS Reimburse Private School Transportation Costs

Why the "Reagan Revolution" Scheme to Gut America's Middle Class is Coming to an End

This Is Years of Starving Government and Deregulating Industry at Work

The 'Capitalism is Broken' Economy

Foxconn fallout: Mount Pleasant Village President says 'everything is on the table' for renegotiating local development agreement

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DHS confirms Wisconsin to lose out on more than $50M in monthly federal food aid starting in May

Which States Tax Their Residents the Most and Least?

Biden’s infrastructure plan would replace every lead pipe in Milwaukee

Ronald Reagan's shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness

The GOP, America’s most selfless political party

Deadpan Jen Psaki Mows Down Newsmax Reporter Over ‘Secret Memo’ Question

The rise of working from home

Quick, How Much Is $2 Trillion?

JEN PSAKI STUFFS FOX NEWS’ PETER DOOCY IN METAPHORICAL LOCKER DURING WHITE HOUSE PRESS BRIEFING

A Brief History Of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways

Where Are Real Estate Taxes Lowest (and Highest)?

Kansas Senate majority leader was drunk in police chase, called an officer ‘Donut boy,’ authorities say

Republican legislative leaders want Josh Kaul to sue to allow state to use stimulus for tax cuts

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'Quiet Part Out Loud': RNC Lawyer Admits GOP Cheats To Win

Ron DeSantis Is Selling Vaccines To Rich Floridians

Trump’s Dismal Record on the Economy

Bill Requires National Anthem Before Games

Not Another Rich Guy for Senator

Wisconsin and local governments would receive $5.5 billion in COVID-19 aid under House bill

Elena Kagan Dismantled a Republican Lawyer and Might Have Saved Voting Rights Act in the Process

Linkages Between Labor Market Institutions and Inequality

Ronald Reagan and The Politics of Declining Union Organization

Labor Law Is Broken, Economist Says

Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining

$15 By 2025

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 would lift the pay of 32 million workers

In The Land of Make-Believe

When your policies only benefit the top 1%, when you have nothing intelligent to add to any conversation, when the majority of your constituents have been hurt by your political decisions, all you are left with is symbolism, revisionism and make-believe.

After COVID shutdown, former Wis. Governor Scott Walker hopes to re-open Reagan’s boyhood home

In fact, it's all about revisionist history, an imagined past, phony accolades and false idols for bozos like Scott Walker.

Thursday Reading

U.S. government checks constituted 40% of farmers’ income in 2020

A New Congressional Budget Office Study Shows That Medicare for All Would Save Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Annually

Trump’s Businesses Raked In $1.9 Billion Of Revenue During His First Three Years In Office

Ronald Reagan Paved the Way for Donald Trump

Republicans won in rural Wisconsin again, now comes the hard part — governing

Trickle-down economics doesn't work but build-up does – is Biden listening?

Trickle-down economics is dead. It’s time to tax the rich harder

NBC's Chuck Todd to GOP senator on Electoral College challenge: 'You're the arsonist here'

A decade ago, this scientist predicted 2020 would bring 'peak' chaos to the U.S.

The Senate’s coup-staging ‘Dirty Dozen’ shouldn’t be allowed to hold office

Federal Judge Tears Apart Election Lawsuit

Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero

Capitol attackers have long threatened violence in rural American west

The Covid Tracking Project

St Croix County Republican Party tells members to 'prepare for war' and to remove 'leftist tyrants' from local office

Weekend Reading

How Ronald Reagan’s Racism Helped Pave the Way for Donald Trump’s

Senate GOP confirms yet another 'not qualified' judicial nominee

In Case You Missed It, Reagan Was A Scumbag

Tony Evers releases $541M COVID-19 relief package but Republicans signal tough path

Home Prices Are In a Bubble. Full Stop.

Alito drops pretense of impartiality, delivers political remarks

Milwaukee paid $40M+ in police brutality cases

Ron Johnson More Trumpian Than Trump?

After NY Gov. Cuomo Accuses SC of Partisanship, Cardinal Dolan Hails Decision to Block COVID Church Restrictions

Supreme Court's scientifically illiterate decision will cost lives

The Wisconsin Legislature is a gerrymandered swamp run by self-serving Republicans

Documentary Wants You To ‘Slay the Dragon’ of Gerrymandering In Wisconsin

Republican Senator Faces Insider-Trading Accusations Ahead of Georgia Runoff

'Bye-Bye, Betsy DeVos. You Won't Be Missed,' Says Sanders as Billionaire Education Secretary Attacks Push for Tuition-Free College

Michael Flynn calls for Trump to suspend the constitution and declare martial law to re-run election

How Trump Took the Middle Class to the Cleaners

Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing

'In Breaking the Senate, We Are Abandoning Our People': Watch AOC Excoriate McConnell on House Floor

Baby boomers have an average of $25,812 of debt, not including mortgages—here’s how they compare to other generations

From Reagan to Trump: Here's How Stocks Performed Under Each President

 

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Weekend Reading

Jacob Blake's mother calls for prayers, end to violent protests in Kenosha

Colectivo Owners Oppose Union

CEO Pay Has Risen 1,167% Since 1978

Russiagate Was Not a Hoax

The MyPillow Guy, explained by someone who read his memoir

Milwaukee Police Gobble Up City Budget

The age of endarkenment

Doctors to Ron Johnson: COVID-19 Is More Lethal Than the Flu

Record $926 million flows into controversial Chicago TIF districts, more than a third of city property taxes

The City Planners' Case for Defunding the Police
Daniel Dale On Convention Lies: 'It's Hard For Me To Know Where To Start'

Crooks & Liars Staffers Remember The Wonderful Values Of Ronald Reagan

Weekend Reading

White Flights Returns, This Time From The Suburbs
Big Business Tax Breaks May Worsen Income Inequality
Big Coal Is Using This Small Oklahoma Town As A Toxic Waste Dump
Why Poverty Is Rising Faster In Suburbs Than Cities
Japan's Recovery Is The Greatest Economic Success Story Never Told
If The Economy Is So Great, Why Are 78 Million Hustling For Dimes?
The Financial Scandal No One Is Talking About
The Baby Boomer - Not Millennials - Screwed America
A New Genetic Clue To How Humans Got Such Big Brains
The Numbers That Explain Why Teachers Are In Revolt
No One Answers Their Phone Anymore
Why We Should Bulldoze The Business School
Mourning In America: What My Father, Ronald Reagan, Would Say

Weekend Reading

The Reagan Boom, Kind Of Like The Ford-Carter Boom
The Washington Post's NAFTA Fantasy: 10 Years Later
Yes, Robert Samuelson Says It's Time To Cut Social Security And Medicare
Red Versus Blue States In The Job Recovery
Never Mind The 1 Percent, Let's Talk About The 0.01 Percent
The U.S. Economy Is Creating Millionaires At An Astonishing Pace. But What's It Doing For Everyone Else?

Weekend Reading

Tim Cook's Disingenuous Argument to Justify Apple's $215 Billion Offshore Cash Hoard
Ronald Reagan Wasn't A Ponzi Schemer
Suburbs Trying To Attract Millennials Diverge on Development Patterns
The Sinister Side of Cash
Media Loves Doomsday Stories About the West's Water Crisis. Here's What They Miss
The Freedom Lover's Case for the Welfare State
How to Learn to Love Maths
Undervalued Properties Deprive Schools of Millions in Funds
Life got better for pretty much everyone under Obama

The Economic Recovery Hasn’t Reached America’s Schools

Hypothetical Contemporary Super Reagan

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Weekend Reading

Myth & Reality: The Low-Wage Job Machine
How Corporate Giveaways Suck The Lifeblood From Your Community
How A Secretive Panel Used Data That Distort Doctors' Pay
Reagan's Million-Jobs Month Revisited
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud
8 Ways Privatization Has Brought Pain & Misery To American Life
Manufacturing Tax Break Gone Wild
Many New Jobs Are Part-Time & Low-Paying
In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters
Tax Incentives: Costly For States, Drag On The Nation
15 Things Americans Would Know If There Were A Liberal Media

Tea Party Inspiration & Republican Pioneer Of Batshit: Ronald Reagan

Sunday Reading

Tear down this icon: Why the GOP has to get over Ronald Reagan
The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? It's Barack Obama
The Death of a Class Warrior – Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

An Obituary from Below

Treasury Analysts Highlights Risk of Corporate Tax Reform Trap

From a Deficit to a Surplus and Back Again

Where Have All the Jobs Gone?

Weekend Reading

What If Obama Spent Like Reagan?

U.S Has Some Of The Lowest Energy Taxes In The World

4 States Considering Laws That Challenge Teaching Evolution

The Real Reason For The Decline Of American Unions

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Should Take Tougher Stand On Mine

Why The Founding Fathers Loved National Debt

Home Depot Syndrome

Paul Ryan Breaks Down Under Wonkterrogation

Our Incredible Shrinking Government

Truly Unfortunate

Scott Walker was recently in California at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum giving a speech about his plans for Wisconsin. The Reagan Library, where the biggest Republican whores go to grovel before their sugar daddies and kingmakers. Yes, what better place to start talking about future Wisconsin legislative plans than in California? But, as they say, you've got to go where the money is.

"We think if we want to continue the economic success we've had over the last year and a half, again one of the best ways to do this is to put money back in the hands of entrepreneurs, more money back in the hands of small business owners, more money back in the hands of our consumers...we're going to continue to lower our property taxes, and we're going to put in place an aggressive income tax reduction and reform in the state of Wisconsin because we believe we can continue to be one of the leaders in the country, not just in reform but ultimately in results." said Walker.

Economic success? Since Walker took over, Wisconsin is near the bottom in job growth among the states.

The Walker plan includes: tax cuts (of course), making Wisconsin's voucher program for private schools available to more students (even though research has shown the program doesn't produce any better results), and to eliminate "unnecessary" state regulations (vague, as usual). Basically, tax cuts and deregulation, alongside funneling more public dollars to unaccountable semi-private entities. Sound familiar? We've heard these recommendations from Republicans for decades now. What has it got us? Stagnant wages, volatile retirements, expensive health care, and increasing inequality.

"It's unfortunate he's going to try to continue to go down this war path of ideology instead of actually trying to address the real problems that we've got. It looks like he's putting his donors above his voters," said Chris Larson.

Truly unfortunate.

Weekend Reading

Bush Ignored Seven Warnings About Attacks
Dear Mr. Dimon, Is Your Bank Getting Corporate Welfare?
The Hard Lessons Of Wisconsin
How Policy Has Contributed To The Great Economic Divide
'Nuns On The Bus' Visit Paul Ryan's Office
Public Sector Layoffs
Reagan's Gone. You're Old. Get Over It.
The Rent Is Too Damn High
Revenge Of The Urban Nerds
The Scam Wall Street Learned From The Mafia
Twilight Of The Elites
Wages Continue To Fall

The Results Of The Reagan Revolution

The US Has the Highest Share of Employees in Low Wage Work

Ronnie & The Right's Reality Problem

Everything conservative is encapsulated in the mythology of Ronald Reagan. But, as usual with Republicans, their talking-points don't mesh with reality. Most of what they claim to be the Reagan legacy is merely elaborate revisionism detached from actual experience. If we were to look at the list of conservative principles [as mandated by Grover Norquist] - no new taxes, shrinking the size of government, and an aversion to debt and deficits - Reagan would fail every one. 

It's actually funny that the party that hates Hollywood chose a former actor to be their posterboy for the Republican platform; nevermind that Reagan himself failed at this platform. As another election cycle begins to heat up, I thought it would be good to shine a light on the often repeated, yet completely false, right-wing Reagan talking-points.

"Ultimately, Reagan signed measures that increased federal taxes every year of his two-term presidency except the first and the last."

"Federal spending grew by an average of 2.5 percent a year, adjusted for inflation, while Reagan was president."

"The national debt exploded, increasing from about $700 billion to nearly $3 trillion."

"The number of federal employees grew from 2.8 million to 3 million under Reagan."

"During the Reagan administration the number of families living below the poverty line increased by one-third."

"His administration was responsible for numerous brutal actions in Latin America, including massacres in El Salvador and the war against Nicaragua."

"Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level."

"Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty."

"Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan."


Sources:
Five Myths About Reagan's Legacy
Reagan & The Joy Of Myth-Making
Reagan Revisionism & Reagan Mythology
The Ronald Reagan Myth
Ten Things Conservative Don't Want You To Know About Reagan
Top 10 Reagan Myths