In the GOP's grotesquely-gerrymandered Wisconsin Assembly, legislators from communities like Waupaca and Ledgeville and Campbellsport with relatively minuscule populations who live from the state's biggest urban area get to control how Milwaukee could raise revenue which Republicans have already squeezed off.
And control Milwaukee they do, as these out-of-town, out-of touch strangers to big city residents' needs have a budget message for Milwaukee: Go pound sand, and we won't even let Milwaukee residents vote on it.
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| Timothy Ramthun, a first-term GOP Assembly Representative from Campbellsport, is among the legislators who is not supporting allowing Milwaukee to raise sales tax revenues to fund basic big-city needs. Campbellsport's municipal profile shows that it has 1,970 people - - 97.4% of whom are white - - and is 100% rural. Imagine a Milwaukee Common Council or state legislative member similarly taking control of Campbellsport's budget. |
Milwaukee leaders make case for higher sales tax, but effort is doomed in CapitolAnd, yes, Campbellsport is where Glenn Grothman moved so he could run for the Congressional seat he will probably hold for life.
Ramthun: Idiot.
ReplyDeleteI have a news flash for you, they have also to told the rural communities to go pound sand.
ReplyDeleteThink about it. First they cut funding to our schools. They then said they'd help us save money by screwing over our teachers. After that they restrict how we can run our referendums where local voters actual vote on whether they should raise their own taxes. Now we have schools that we have to hold together with band aids and we can't get teachers because we were forced to cut their benefits. Funny thing: The worthless legislators have better benefits, including a higher retirement return, than the teachers and work a few weeks out of the year. The Wis GOP could care less about local control. They are worse than worthless, at least worthless would mean they do no damage.