Brewtown Gumshoe

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ John F. Kennedy

Thursday, August 28, 2008

Dispelling Campaign Myths

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Obama's tax plan is more likely to help economy; McCain's plan would hurt the economy. The tax code is not more progressive than i...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Disgraceful Corporate Tax Avoidance

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Robert Borosage details the lastest Government Accountabilty Office's report which found that "about two-thirds of corporations ...
Friday, August 1, 2008

Tax Fairness & Uniformity

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Property tax levies rising 6.1 percent in southeastern Wisconsin in 2008 have the newspapers and anti-tax mouthpieces spouting their misdir...
Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Oil's Slippery Logic

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Bush, as usual, is blaming his incompetence on Congress, alleging gas prices are their fault . Congress is actually doing the American peopl...
Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Pollyanna

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In the most recent of his many declarations of incoherence, our unfit leader said the economy is " basically sound ." Which is why...
Saturday, July 5, 2008

Tax Burden Shifting: Exemptions

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Exemptions are a subtle scourge on our public institutions and a devious tax avoidance scheme written into state statutes by corporate lawye...
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Friday, July 4, 2008

Social Security Program Solid

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Comptroller General David M. Walker and Rep. Paul Ryan sure have been getting a lot of positive ink from the Journal-Sentinel lately. It’s a...
Friday, June 13, 2008

Wal-Mart Propaganda and (Local) Media Lapdogs

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Wal-Mart is trying to build new stores in Cudahy and Muskego. Citizens of both communities are fighting the development. Much of the “journa...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Prophets of Doom

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The Journal-Sentinel’s praise of Paul Ryan as of late is getting scary. They have a new editorial bestowing the virtue of his “Road Map for...
Friday, May 9, 2008

Cognitive Dissonance

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A recently released " study " finds that conservatives are happier than liberals. I guess it's true what they say, ignorance i...
Wednesday, May 7, 2008

The Voter Fraud Hoax

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Voter fraud delirium is the latest in the Republicans attempt to suppress the vote of elderly and low-income constituents, whom usually vote...
Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Economic Stimulus

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The answer to our present economic hardship is not suspending the gas tax (robbing our transportation infrastructure of much needed revenu...
Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sprawl & Sewer Overflows

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Don Behm's April 19, 2008 Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel article goes on at length about the "swelling sanitary sewers," but no m...
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Saturday, April 12, 2008

Class Warfare

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s take on the Columbian trade agreement, “ In a fog over trade ,” is just more refuse on the pile of globaliz...
Saturday, April 5, 2008

Miller Pork

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Don Walker’s April 3, 2008 article, from the Journal-Sentinel, “ Miller Park: Economic promises got it built. Has it paid? ” implies there i...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Obama Making Corporate Hacks Nervous

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John Torinus, of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, wrote a Sunday March 23, 2008 article, Obama speech full of anti-business rhetoric , lambas...
Sunday, March 16, 2008

NAFTA & The Myth of Free Trade

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John McCain recently indicated his position in the free trade debate and belittled his Democratic challengers by dismissing their reservati...
Friday, March 7, 2008

CEO Compensation Scam

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Long overdue, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is looking into the ridiculously overblown CEO compensation . Executives a...
Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Subsidizing Mansions

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Here is an alarmingly informative October 18, 2005 article from Professor Peter Dreier (key points are italicized below): The two major hom...
Sunday, March 2, 2008

Development, Sprawl and Water

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Sprawl : low-density, lacks mixed-use, separates residential from non-residential property, lacks mass transportation options, increases aut...
Thursday, February 28, 2008

Vouchers & Private Sector Accountability

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As stated in the Journal-Sentinel's February 27, 2008 article , "Researchers based at the University of Arkansas said that city pro...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Corporate Blackmail or How Taxpayers Pockets Are Being Looted in the Name of Economic Development

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Here the Journal Sentinel's editorial page goes again on Feb. 22, 2008 pontificating about Oconomowoc's proposed interchange and sh...
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