Vos Republicans don't believe there's a legitimate opposition party with strongly held policies and beliefs. They think liberals, progressives, and Democrats are communists and Marxists, trying to destroy their own jobs, families, economy, and government. I get it, but it doesn't have to make sense to our QAnon neighbors anymore.
Recently, cosplay governor Robin Vos said that Republicans will never "compromise their conservative ideals," dismissing liberal ideals entirely. Talk about "cancel culture."
Pretending their Trump/Scott Walker "eggs-in-one-basket" Foxconn debacle never happened, the party of big business continues to ignore the real economic backbone of our state; local small businesses and privately owned farms and their employees.
Stimulus Downside for Republicans? PPP Loans forced Business to Keep Employees? Really, employers were "caught between a rock and the hard place" keeping employees? Gerrymandering made this brutal but free from voter accountability comment possible. Behold...
JSOnline: Republican Sen. Joan Ballweg of Markesan, who as a member of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted in favor of the state tax cut (for PPP loans) on Wednesday.Do antigovernment Republicans act like they want "small" Government: Think about it; they run for a government job, then get paid with hard earned taxpayer dollars, do nothing to solve state-wide problems, then create gerrymandered safe districts to keep their cushy government jobs, all the while grabbing power away from localities and the Governor.
She said the program helped the tourism industry get through the pandemic but was flawed because of the rules requiring it to retain employees when business was down.
"They were caught between a rock and the hard place because their business crashed. But by trying to get into the PPP loan, they were mandated to keep on employees that they didn’t need. From the beginning, it was a noble effort. Was it done perfectly? By far and away not."
Give the Legislature oversight of the distribution of federal funds that are allocated to Wisconsin related to combating COVID-19...give Republicans in the Legislature authority over how to spend all future federal COVID-19 dollars that the state receives.
The budget committee approved a spending plan that will financially penalize some school districts for offering online instruction during the pandemic. Republicans praised the plan for rewarding school districts that have “done the right thing.”…threatening some school districts too...
(The superintendents wrote back saying,) "Moving too quickly to in-person learning carries its own problems."A few years back, Sen. Steve Nass accused districts of tricking referendum voters by making claims schools needed maintenance upgrades and building replacements, when they didn't need it. That never was true, not for West Allis or Wauwatosa:
The district operates buildings that are more than 70 years old. "We have and will continue to do everything we can to make our buildings safer during this time and that includes maximizing ventilation and air exchange rates. However, this is not easy in our older buildings," they wrote.Do-nothing Vos Republicans, skipping the hard work spelled out by the CDC, just want to open schools without making them safer...:
Because Republicans want to kill any possibility of mask mandates statewide, the superintendents pointed out why that's another bad idea:
Schools can operate more safely when community spread is seriously addressed. Help us with this," Lexmond and Ertl wrote.
WKOW: The state's failure to pass a new COVID-19 response package is now costing Wisconsin more than $1 million every week in federal unemployment relief money.
Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a package approved by the GOP-led Assembly and Senate (over) controversial items added by the Assembly. In order to receive the federal relief, states cannot have a waiting period for people filing a claim for unemployment benefits:
Add in the WMC-backed tax cut which matches bad Fed policy which not only allows PPP loans to not count as income, but gives a "double deduction" that also allows them to write off the expenses that PPP already paid for.
ReplyDeleteIt's part of a bigger tax package, so the overall number went through easily, but it'll blow a $540 million hole in the budget, and they'll likely use that to cut Evers' plans to add big $ to K-12 and save property tax dollars in the process.
MONEY AND POWER. It's all WisGOP cares about. No other principle applies.
Did not know about the double deduction. It seems when you dig a little deeper into anything Vos Republicans plan, it's always for the worst reasons.
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