To: Laissez-faire capitalist
They all like borrow-and-spend.
Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.phpAmerican Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”
Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think) National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
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...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."
Three-quarters of Americans think teachers paid less than they really are Washington Examiner ^ | 9-16-13 | ASHE SCHOW
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Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs yahoo ^
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The aid for the states is to be paid for mostly by closing a tax loophole used by multinational corporations and by reducing food stamp benefits for the poor...The legislation provides $10 billion to school districts to rehire laid-off teachers or to ensure that more teachers won't be let go before the new school year begins."
Mutually Assured Destruction [Tues. debacle confirms growing rift between Dems & teachers unions.] American Spectator ^ | 11/5/10 | RiShawn Biddle
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Congressional Democrats angered centrist school reformers, MoveOn.org-style progressives, and other party activists in August when they voted to ladle $10 billion in federal subsidies (funded from future cuts to the Food Stamp program) to school districts in order to stave off layoffs of 160,000 teachers (or just 2.6 percent of the nation's 6.2 million school employees). In turn, the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers poured more than $40 million of their hefty campaign war chests (including more than $15 million by the NEA in the last weeks of the election season alone) to help the Democrats keep full control of Congress."
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7 posted on
06/30/2015 4:00:41 PM PDT by
familyop
("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
To: familyop
So if the federal government borrows money (which both Republicans and Dems in DC do) then that is better than tax-and-spend? How about doing neither of the two?
Secondly, there are corporatists on both sides of the aisle (both Dems and Republicans) with some who like taxpayer- funded subsidies for oil and gas but not for “green” stuff, and others who want subsidies for green stuff, but not for oil and gas.
Neither side of this truly supports free market/free enterprise in this regard.
To: familyop
My understanding is that the big disagreements holding up the Wisconsin budget are huge cuts to education that Walker wants and the legislature does not. Walker wants to borrow a huge sum of money for road and bridge repair and the legislature also disagrees with that.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin lost more jobs in May than any other state, over 8,000 jobs lost. Wisconsin has lagged behind since 2011 at about half the national average for job growth. Their unemployment rate is almost a point below the national average, but not enough to account for that low percentage of job production.
16 posted on
06/30/2015 4:09:49 PM PDT by
conservativejoy
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