“Taxing the wealthy and corporations” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We review Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s 40th anniversary events in Milwaukee and La Crosse this week and preview the third event in Green Bay next Thursday evening. President Biden’s new budget was released and includes increased taxes on the wealthy and corporations to fund our nation’s vital priorities and a historic investment in reducing child poverty. We encourage Governor Tony Evers and Legislative Democrats to follow the President’s lead and introduce their own visionary progressive tax plan to properly fund public education, health care and child care. We call out the latest China bashing with an effort to go after TikTok for sin being committed by American tech corporations and right-wing billionaires.
In Wisconsin, the state Senate ends its session by firing Evers appointees, approving terrible constitutional amendments, and failing to fix the counting of absentee ballots, creating fertile grounds for conspiracy theories to flourish. We encourage our listeners to help us talk to the 2 remaining Democrats in the State Legislature to co-sponsor the BadgerCare Public Option bill. We mention the Republican state senator who joined Democrats in voting against a toxic transgender sports bill after listening and hearing the deep harm the bill would do to the kids. We hope this kind of listening and being open to change or persuasion will return to state government. We also reveal big businesses’ lobbying effort to block the DNR’s ability to permit factory farms in Wisconsin.
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Show Links:
- White House budget director says Biden plan would ‘give working families a shot’.
- Biden’s 2025 budget prioritizes lowering costs for families, taxing the rich.
- Biden in Milwaukee highlights infrastructure investment to fix ‘divided communities’.
- Senate ends session by firing Evers appointees, approving constitutional amendments.
- Senate to adjourn with election fixes unlikely, leaving conspiracy theories to flourish.
- Republican senator joins Democrats against transgender sports bill.
- Bill to prevent local restrictions on large farms supported by ag interests.
- Business lobby appeals to block DNR’s ability to permit factory farms in Wisconsin.
