Item #1 comes to us with a hat tip to The Blogfather – Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch isn’t ruling out backing the 2.5% oil profits tax even though he realizes that it will be an over-7-cents-per-gallon tax increase. After all, he has to keep Payne and Dolan happy, taxpayers be damned.
Item #2 is from Owen’s latest column (H/T so I can get the trackback from Boots and Sabers). It really hammers home the both the sham that is the concept of fund transfers and the insatable appetite of the units of government that are the beneficiaries (and in this case) the authors of that transfer. Can anyone tell me why the state needs $7 out of the $12 fee for the first copy of a birth certificate when it has no cost associated with either maintaining or reproducing that certificate (at least it doesn’t currently take anything out of the $3 for a second copy requested at the same time), much less its proposed take of over half of the proposed $20 fee for EVERY copy, specifically without the oinks and squeals that are the only truthful reason?
And don’t think the other end of the cradle-to-grave mentality that Jim “Craps” Doyle (WEAC/Potawatomi-For Sale) has isn’t covered. Copies of death certificates will be going up from $7 for the first copy and $3 for each additional copy to $20 for each and every copy. Today’s lesson; do not die in Wisconsin.
