Brewtown Gumshoe

Thanks to Citizens for Tax Justice for this nice synopsis on the failures of supply-side economics.

Tightening security “standards” and purging registration lists is just a couple of the tactics being used by Republicans in trying to stea...

Here's why a reallocation of the property tax burden (onto those more able to pay) is better than merely slashing budgets and programs: ...

Two more reasons why we pay more and the well-off pay less. From the Institute for Wisconsins Future : Two Supreme Court rulings undermine s...

The Community Reinvestment Act ( CRA ) nor Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are responsible for the current financial crisis. 11 Lies Conservativ...

Creepiness, senility, and a bad temper -- but this clip of grandpa is just funny. HEH!

The list of privatization/deregulation failure is long. Health care, the airlines, military contractors, school choice, prisons, utilities, ...

The financial meltdown is one of those “ once in a century ” occurrences whereby the citizens could actually walk away with the upper hand, ...

Supply-side economics and the accompanying policies of the last thirty years have produced great returns for Wall Street-ers while devast...

No matter what the problem or the cause - cutting taxes, privatizing (or eliminating) public services, and/or eliminating programs always s...

John McCain really is a maverick . If maverick was code for incoherent, know-nothing, oddball liar. He suspends his campaign, yet his appa...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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