WANTED: ‘social & economic justice’ for taxpayers!
In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience.
• As in March 2021, it announced “endorsements for a strong, progressive city council.”
• The next year, it recommended 13 “Progressive voices for April voters.”
• In 2023, it urged voters to “elect a “progressive Madison council to address city’s challenges.”
• Undeterred by the cruel lessons of experience, last spring [The Capital Times] “looked for candidates with progressive values.”
It’s the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Madison elects nothing but progressives. Result: black kids can’t read, racial guilt is promulgated, police are monitored, and home owners are screwed, blued and tattooed.
All poverty to the people!
Home owners (and renters, whether they realize it or not) are paying the price for a progressive Christmas through their property tax bills — up an astounding 11.2% on average — with more to come as the school district spending referenda phase in.
Jennifer in the Lake Edge neighborhood (as captured from the NextDoor app): “I will be forced out of my home and Madison eventually. It’s unsustainable.”
Diane at Northland Manor: “Hey Jennifer! I’m being forced out, too. I had hoped to be out over the summer, but the process of finding a new abode was depressing and excruciating. I’m in my 70s and way too old to be searching for another place.”
Teri in Manchester Park: “I’m in the same boat. My husband … passed very unexpectedly 14 months ago. … I’ll be 60 in January, and our taxes are astronomical! … Anyway, it terrifies me, even the thought of all that is involved with selling/moving. Ugh! Good luck to all of us.”
It’s never enough
The Democratic Party of Dane County is “dedicated to supporting progressive candidates and policies in towns, villages and cities throughout the county.”
Accountability not being a progressive virtue, they blame the Republican state legislature for “under-funding local government.” The alternative is for state government to jack up income taxes, sales and gasoline taxes to pay for progressive experiments so that the money comes out of the left pocket instead of the right. Progressives believe spending is never the problem, only insufficient revenue.
Yet, state contributions to the City of Madison’s budget increased by 35%. Admittedly, state funding for Madison’s public schools decreased 13% — partly because of the profligacy of the school board, which showered staff with 8% pay increases — and gave themselves a bonus, too. The WI Policy Forum warned:
The rippling consequences of another operating referendum … could put downward pressure on state aid in future years. So far, MMSD leaders have not put forward a comprehensive strategy to work with Madison lawmakers and other legislators to try to change state law to blunt the impact of referenda on the district’s state aid.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The party of government is the party of Un-affordability.
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In all seriousness though this is Democracy in action! Yes chicken little was wrong again … Democracy is very much alive and well.
That people voted against their own financial interests matters not.
“In this house, we voted YES on the referendums (and our poop still doesn’t stink)”
Seen on Monroe Street, probably.
David is right on it. Look at the financial condition of the city and county.
Why? Because the same far left liberals continue to be elected. It IS insanity because they continue to be the ruling party and things don’t change, and that includes calling the other side of the aisle the problem.
(I refuse to call that progressive).
For all of those complaining out there,
✓ Do you vote in EVERY election??
√ Do you actually know who and what you are voting for?
√ Do you look at who endorses them and who gives them money?
There’s a lot of national money coming in for common Council races and the mayor.
You don’t have to look any further than the campaign finance reports.
Dave wrote, “…doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Here’s the problem with applying that particular statement to Madison and the Dane County Democratic Party; most of the Madison area voters have shown me that they aren’t “expecting different results”, as implied in the quote above, they’re socialist minded totalitarians that actually want the same kind of big government socialistic results they’re voting for. This is exactly what the public gets when the majority of Madison area voters (aka bigots) absolutely refuse to vote for anyone that doesn’t have a (D), aka Democrat, after their name.
In my opinion, there is no such thing as a “moderate liberal” anymore, at least not in the Dane County area. I know a self proclaimed moderate Madison Democrat who enters their voting booth and openly votes against anything that doesn’t have a (D) after the name, always choosing to vote for the identified Democrat; I know this because he has openly stated it. Why does this person do this; because they’ve deluded themselves into believing something as absurd as this, “I am a center-left moderate. I vote for Democrats, but I’m not a partisan.”. Yes, that is an accurate quote and I’m fully aware that openly stating that they vote for Democrats but they’re not partisan is a hypocritical contradiction. Sure some of these self identified “moderate liberals” can mouth moderation once in a while, but personally, I think claiming to be a “moderate liberal” when their own words and actions show otherwise makes their claim of moderation a delusional false facade.
These are a few of the problems with the political left in Madison and Dane County.
Prove me wrong.
I like how WISC Channel 3 interviews a women about her high property tax bill and voted for both school referendums but is glad she did. She works for DPI. No wonder.
No kidding! One would think that a competent, truth seeking and unbiased news organization wouldn’t select and air someone’s response who would be s obviously biased! Apparently incompetence and left leaning bias are rampant among our local media. Now there’s a revelation!
Yes, progressives believe that insufficient revenue keeps their diabolical plans from succeeding. Problem is that their plans demonstrably don’t work. Bigger problem is, most progressives don’t know jack sh!t about how to raise revenue except to take it by force from someone else.
It looks like it’s time to start looking for a new home. $6100 up over $700 for a two bedroom 1100sq.ft. house on a 5000 sq.ft. lot is getting ridiculous. I don’t like thinking about moving at 70 and having to move out of Dane County.
Madison sees Democratic governance in Minneapolis where “Some people did something” as Ilhan Omar descibes the Great Somali Rip Off.
Madison sees LA one year after the Palisades Fire and they’ve already rebuilt one house thanks to Democrat governance.
Madison sees Chicago tax and spend lunacy and says “It can’t happen here.”
Democrat Abundance and Affordability.
Inevitable as gravity.