{"id":3954,"date":"2009-06-08T08:18:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=3954"},"modified":"2011-11-04T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:32:16","slug":"wisconsin-politicians-screwing-taxpayers-one-dollar-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wisconsin-politicians-screwing-taxpayers-one-dollar-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Politicians Screwing Taxpayers One Dollar at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin has been drunk on taxing and spending for a long time. We easily rank in the top ten (or higher) states when it comes to the tax burden. There is no tax our politicians don&#8217;t love.<\/p>\n<p>There are three reasons why it&#8217;s so easy to increase taxes and create new taxes here: <!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Portray those who must pay the new or higher tax as evil. Think oil companies, smokers, naughty rich people and the like. If they&#8217;re villains, then it must be okay to tax them.<\/li>\n<li>Lie about the taxes. For example, oil companies are going to be &#8220;prohibited&#8221; from passing on their new tax to consumers. That&#8217;s not really going to happen. Whenever a higher cost goes into making or selling an item, that cost is always passed onto the purchasers of that item. That&#8217;s how business work. If it costs me more to make it, I&#8217;m going to charge more to those who buy it. If I don&#8217;t, I won&#8217;t be in business long.<\/li>\n<li>Nickel and dime the taxpayers. So many of these increased fees and taxes are portrayed as tiny. After all, what does another 1% sales tax cost a consumer? Only a penny for ever dollar spent. Who would be against just one little penny? The problem is that those pennies add up quickly, and in this budget cycle, we&#8217;re going to have thousands of dollars of tax\u00a0 and fee increases for each household.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Check out all<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/statepolitics\/47133097.html\"> the increased taxing<\/a> that is going to be happening in Wisconsin. (And don&#8217;t forget that the media is constantly lamenting the loss of jobs in the state and the fact that companies are not setting up shop here. Can you blame them?)<\/p>\n<p>This is only a <strong>partial<\/strong> list of costs to come:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Higher cost of auto insurance (But if you don&#8217;t have insurance, don&#8217;t worry. There&#8217;s nothing here to hurt you. This rule only applies if you&#8217;re responsible enough to actually have insurance. You&#8217;ll have to buy more.)<\/li>\n<li>Cigarette tax up $0.75 to $2.52 per pack<\/li>\n<li>Telephone tax (land lines) of $0.75 per month<\/li>\n<li>Higher tax on capital gains<\/li>\n<li>Milwaukee County sales tax (already the highest in the state) will go up to 6.6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These taxes and fees are being touted as necessary to help fix the budget deficit. The real problem is not that we don&#8217;t tax enough. It&#8217;s that the state spends too much. And they&#8217;re not willing to make any substantive cuts in spending when money is tight.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at all the new taxes and the increases in certain types of spending <a href=\"http:\/\/maciverinstitute.com\/Secretly_Cut_Budget_Deal.pdf\">in the draft of the budget<\/a>. Be forwarned: It will likely sicken you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin has been drunk on taxing and spending for a long time. We easily rank in the top ten (or higher) states when it comes to the tax burden. There is no tax our politicians don&#8217;t love. 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