Tag: sales tax
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Is Madison willing to pay for a sales tax at the price a Republican legislature will charge?
Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don’t take it all‘Cause I’m the taxmanYeah, I’m the taxman — G. Harrison, The Beatles How serious is Madison city government about balancing its budget? Rather than address the over-spending that created its $27 million structural deficit, alders are chasing a rainbow-colored unicorn — a city sales…
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When political hate substitutes for principled reason
The Capital Times advises: Take the money and run Any day now, the nicest guy in the world, Capital Times emeritus editor Dave Zweifel, will write a paean to a kinder and gentler politics, civil discourse, and the Chicago Cubs. Until then, his newspaper is talking more trash than Donald Trump on a tweet storm.…