Sunday Reading

Water Safety, Lead Removal Plans Advance At Milwaukee City Hall
Watch 1998 Rudy Giuliani Torpedo 2018 Rudy Giuliani's Trump Arguments
Minnesota Outpaces Wisconsin, Report Says
Who Is The Freeloader: The Working Poor On Food Stamps - Or Corporations That Don't Pay Them Enough?
Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project
Journey Through The Land Of Extreme Poverty: Welcome To America
Scott Walker Has A Message For Wisconsin Voters: Here's Some Cash
All Betsy Devos Knows Is How To Profit From Schoolchildren
Enrollment Counts Expose Loophole In Wisconsin Parental Choice Program
Democratic Candidates For Governor Would End A Nation's First
Former DOT Head Is Scott Walker's Chief Critic On Transportation
The Anti-Roads Governor
The 9.9 Percent Is The New American Aristocracy

Wisconsin Roundup

Corporate Welfare Is Good:

• City May Provide $1.2 Million To Keep Downtown Boston Store Open
• Wisconsin ranks ahead of 33 other states, and the District of Columbia, in corporate welfare payments to business...roughly 10 percent of Wisconsin's budget, or $1.53 billion, is spent on incentives for businesses, or roughly $270 per capita.
• Warren Buffett, Waltons Get Welfare From Wisconsin Taxpayers
• Wisconsin spends at least $1.53 billion per year on incentive programs
• Wisconsin Farm Subsidies
• Corporate welfare in wisconsin
• Wisconsin's Walker and GOP: reward rich friends, punish everyone else

"Living" Wages Are Bad; Punishing The Poor Is Good:

• Wisconsin Bill Banning Local 'Living Wage' Laws Concern Barrett, Abele
• Wal-Mart Relies On Taxpayers To Subsidize Low Wages
• If Republicans Want a 2016 Nominee Who Will Punish The Poor, Scott Walker Is Their Man
• Scott Walker Finds Another Way To Punish The Working Poor
• Scott Walker’s 2016 Pitch: Who Has Punished The Working Poor More Than I Have?
• How opting out of Medicaid expansion punishes the poor
• Food stamp cuts punish people for being poor

And, Scott Walker Is A Crook:

• More Evidence That WI Gov. Scott Walker Is Under Investigation
• Scott Walker Investigated in Secret Wisconsin Probe
• Investigation targets Scott Walker recall campaign, political groups
• Evidence Mounting that Walker Campaign Is at Center of Criminal Probe
• Special Prosecutor Named In Investigation Of Possible Criminal Activity Surrounding Scott Walker Recall Election
• There's a New Secret Investigation Roiling Wisconsin's Turbulent Politics

Partisan A-Hole

These two headlines really show how disgustingly corrupt and bad for Wisconsin the Walker administration truly is:

Walker donor wins tax break in budget

Budget trims tax credit for working poor

This slug of a human (I'm using the term 'human' loosely), and his minions, can't be recalled fast enough.

Kick 'Em While They're Down

From the indispensable David Cay Johnston, "In 2009 almost 62 million workers, 41 percent of everyone who had a job that year, made less than $20,000. And 100.6 million workers, exactly two out of three people with jobs, made less than $40,000, the Medicare tax database shows. The Obama-GOP tax increase applied to everyone with a job that paid under $20,000 ($40,000 for married heterosexual couples). So while at least 90 percent of Americans are uninformed about this tax increase, you can now contribute to the factual basis of our national tax debate by pointing out to others that Obama and the GOP, along with a lot of congressional Democrats, enacted a bipartisan tax increase on the working poor in violation of their campaign pledges."