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The following two headlines appeared side-by-side in most Wisconsin papers recently:

Legislature and Governor Agree to Double Capital Gains Tax (Other Taxes and Fees up over $3 Billion)

And …

GM Will Not Re-open Janesville Auto Plant (Kenosha Engine Plant among other companies still on the bubble)

Most of us know that businesses, especially small businesses, rely on capital gains incentives to power their investments in their workers and the community. Small business owners also use these long-term tax rates to provide income in retirement that is inflation-protected. If the irony of these two headlines is lost on our State’s citizens and politicians, its time to re-visit the creation of the State of “Superior”, which would carve out the people of common sense, leaving the insatiable redistributionists behind (maybe a virtual State?).

In Wisconsin, as in the rest of the world, there are those that create, those that follow, and those that obstruct. Just as the candle originates the light, the mirror reflects it, and the brick wall blocks it, the fate of a community depends upon the category to which its leaders belong.

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Because of the explosive growth in telecom technology over the last decades, the State of Wisconsin, through the Department of Administration (DOA) and other agencies, commissioned several internal and external studies to determine how best to utilize the State’s network resources, and to service the telecom needs of its citizens. The early studies, conducted in the 1990s, identified the enormous positive potential a properly designed network could have in reducing government and educational costs while making the State attractive to new businesses. That this vision was never realized is the saddest of sad stories impacting the future economic vitality of Wisconsin.

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