What it boils down to is basically this: The Republican legislature doesn't like borrow-and spend and they don't ax-and-spend, either. Secondly, many in the GOP there view this as an "unfunded mandate." Third, the under-current on this with the GOP there is that there are private investors who want to build a stadium and in with this will go tax-payer dollars. This doesn't seem to be true free-market capitalism, where the investors put up all of the risk, but they also get all of the reward. Sure, some might say that in some ways many other businesses not directly linked will also benefit economically. But if this stadium ends up being a net loss for the area, and if the big-time investors end up not bearing the brunt of the fallout, then perhaps that might be an example of corporatism, where the big-time investors reap the majority of the rewards if things go well, but if things don't go as planned then the average-Joe taxpayer might be the ones who bear the majority of the losses.
To: Laissez-faire capitalist; onyx; Hunton Peck; Diana in Wisconsin; P from Sheb; Shady; ...
NY Times executes “hit” on Walker.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this wisconsin interest ping list.
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Yea, Scott Walker! Fire ‘em all!
3 posted on
06/30/2015 3:58:24 PM PDT by
familyop
("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist; All
Please, no Ad Homs (personal attacks) directed at any posters here on this thread. We can all walk and chew bubble gum: eventually go after Hillary (as she herself right now is dragging her own poll numbers down) while working to find the best in the GOP primaries.
I know, I know, it seems as if those who support Ted Cruz or Ben Carson or others can’t say anything about Walker because if they do they are the bad guy, but Walker supporters get free rein here at FR to go after Cruz and others...
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
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067473/posts
Firefighters, Teachers and Police - Not a Federal Responsibilityhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2896477/posts
$85,000 salaries: Teaching pays offhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008237/posts
Joy of six (figures): 738 NYC teachers getting $100G+ pensionshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2456298/posts
LAUSD: Teachers have little reason to cry poorhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095889/posts
Obama signs emergency bill to halt teacher layoffs yahoo ^
Posted on Tue Aug 10 17:38:51 2010
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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."
House bill would cut $4B a year from food stamps Associated Press ^ | Sep 16, 2013 6:28 PM EDT | Mary Clare Jalonick
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067558/posts
Should the Government Help Homeowners With Underwater Mortgages?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2843181/posts
Cushy government pay, benefits nationwide (UNION EXTORTION)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544705/posts
Life's tough for $144,000 garbage collectorshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2662108/posts
Government Workers Make 45 Percent More Than Private Sector Employeeshttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447819/posts
More than 13% of DWP workers are paid $100,000 and uphttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1905448/posts
77,000 feds paid more than governorsGovernment salaries put under scrutinyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2728143/posts
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: Laissez-faire capitalist
Dubious. Wisconsin has excellent roads. On the whole, their roads are probably the best in the country. I doubt there has ever been a problem getting road maintenance funding in that state.
11 posted on
06/30/2015 4:05:05 PM PDT by
SeeSharp
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
WEll the guy still has not announced. Cruz and Trump are eclipsing him. I think he’s peaking and he will be the GOPe default candidate after Jebbie crashed and burns which will kill him on FR.
12 posted on
06/30/2015 4:05:32 PM PDT by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
14 posted on
06/30/2015 4:07:37 PM PDT by
familyop
("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Id rathr have money go for the road repair than a new stadium. We have a lot of old stadiums in downtown already.
15 posted on
06/30/2015 4:08:02 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
17 posted on
06/30/2015 4:11:56 PM PDT by
familyop
("Baxters over there, Rojos there, and me right in the middle" ("A Fistful of Dollars").)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Working with Thad Cochran's biggest unethical manager Brad Dayspring. Scott Walker can forget about getting my vote!
In case you've forgotten all the dirty tricks he pulled, remember:
We had that
"DemocRAT In Disguise" DEFEATED IN THE PRIMARY, until HE CHEATED !
Chris McDaniel refuses to concede: "We're going to investigate" ( 8:40 )
Published on Jun 25, 2014
31 posted on
06/30/2015 4:31:18 PM PDT by
Yosemitest
(It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
I don’t like borrowing but tax hikes are unacceptable.
37 posted on
06/30/2015 4:57:04 PM PDT by
Impy
(They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The NYT doesn’t even know where Wisconsin is on the map.
How do they know how the State GOP thinks.
They don’t even know how NYC voters feel about their Marxist Mayor.
This is yet another hit piece from the MSM.
42 posted on
06/30/2015 8:12:27 PM PDT by
Zathras
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Walker has a track record but frankly he looks dopey and he doesn’t have a college degree. He has no chance in a general.
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
From the article:
“Some want you to think they fight,” Mr. Walker wrote of his rivals on the conservative website RedState last week. “But speeches aren’t fighting or winning.”Walker is my second choice behind Cruz and his actions and the validity of that statement are the main reasons.
56 posted on
07/01/2015 3:05:17 AM PDT by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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