John

Living the good life in Northern Wisconsin.

[John @JackpineWI]

@ScottJenningsKY Should have included an option of just going with DST or Standard Time and staying that way.

Most people just hate the change of times twice a year.

[John @JackpineWI]

@Libs_OfChicago Career suicide would be playing for da Bears🤣🤣🤣

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@MNUpNorthLakeG1 @minkeymagik More like invaders.

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@MikeNellis Massie seriously damaged the Libertarian party.

If he runs for President as a Libertarian, the party will go the way of the Whigs.

[John @JackpineWI]

@GrageDustin This is a real bad take on your part.

Massie is in it for himself and cares nothing about you or me or even the people he represents from Kentucky. He’s also done a disservice to Libertarians by turning average Republicans against them.

[John @JackpineWI]

@RealLindellTV @FBIDirectorKash @FBI Do your due diligence before reporting these half truths. I expect half truths from the New York Times, not Lindell TV.

[John @JackpineWI]

@GeorgiaDawgSack @EricLDaugh Do some research. This is perfectly legal.

[John @JackpineWI]

@JustADudeAZ @EricLDaugh @mike15103748 @grok. Did Pete Hegseth attend as a private citizen or in his official capacity. If he attended as a private citizen, does that violate the Hatch Act?

[John @JackpineWI]

@visionergeo @grok Do the cables running through Iran territorial waters carry a “vast majority” of worldwide internet traffic as stated in this post?

[John @JackpineWI]

@DanielJMiller12 This was a gift to the Democrats running for governor. It would have taken away many of the issues favoring Tiffany in the governors race.

Seems that Democrat Senators not only don’t like Evers, they also don’t like any of the Democrat Governor candidates.

[John @JackpineWI]

@BrettBruen @NickKristof Tim Walz wasn’t available.

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@jimmyfailla @kilmeade @IngrahamAngle Oh, you love it. 😀😀😀

[John @JackpineWI]

@EricLDaugh How is this not different than the race issues in the south in the 50s? President Trump should call in the National Guard. There is precedent.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Allow me to explain the difference between a Loyal American and Senator Mark Kelly (D-Sedition).

When confronted by "journalist" Margaret Brennan, a Loyal American says the following:

"Margaret, I can neither confirm nor deny the stock status of America's most sophisticated precision munitions. That information is classified, and I am therefore duty bound to not publicly divulge such information. Know this, however: we in the Senate are working closely with the Department of War to protect America's national security."

But Senator Mark Kelly (D-Sedition) instead decided to say this about our sophisticated precision munitions:

". . . it’s shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines.”

Prosecute.

[Eric Bott @EricJBott]

So, I went and read this bill Juliana keeps talking about.

It’s AB 1209.

It’s authored by gubernatorial candidate @FrancescaHongWI and it’s absolutely bonkers.

Please get comfortable and stick around because there is a whole lot of craziness to unpack.

First, the bill raises taxes on filers in Wisconsin’s top income tax bracket by 15.69% these are people making over $323K.

So now we know how they’re defining “super rich” and “billionaire.” It’s people making $323K.

This alone would make WI the 9th highest income tax state but the bill doesn’t stop there.

AB 1209 creates a new bracket starting at $750K and sets the tax rate at 17.70%.

17.70!

Under Hong’s plan, WI will be #1 in America for income taxes.

So who will be paying this tax?

Billionaires?

Not really.

Wisconsin hardly has any.

The majority of payers will be mom and pop small businesses.

This is because the overwhelming majority of small businesses file not as corporations but as individuals, pass-throughs, S-corps, etc… and pay the individual tax rate.

Close to 80% of small businesses file this way and a substantial majority of people who will be hit by this 17.7% tax will be small businesses.

So this isn’t a “billionaires” tax at all.

This is a successful small business tax.

And this is all before we get into the strange way the bill plans to increase state school aids.

Under the bill, for purposes of calculating equalization aids and revenue limits, a middle class English speaking child will only count as 71% of a child as compared to a limited-English, low income pupil.

I thought all children were equal but I guess under Hong’s bill some are more equal than others.

I’d love to see the Legislative Fiscal Bureau run this district by district so we can see who wins and who loses under Hong’s weird plan of counting some children as lesser than other children.

Finally, I don’t see anything in the bill limiting property taxes. Presumably they would just keep going up despite increased state aids.

So, how would this net out?

If this bill passed, we could immediately expect:

- Most of WI’s wealthiest would leave.
- Thousands of small businesses would close their doors.
- Large corporations will transfer their executives elsewhere and some will abandon Wi. It will no longer be possible to recruit talent to WI. (This is happening with Starbucks and Amazon right now in Washington over a 9.9% tax. Guess what a 17.7% tax will do.)
- The Packers and Brewers will not be able to recruit talent. (I spent last week with some NFL players and they assured me that this is a big deal).
- Tax revenues will plummet. WI will face a budget deficit and effectively go into recession.
- Despite the new state aid increases, local governments appear to be able to raise property taxes more (and they’ll need to after commercial values plummet due to all the office buildings being abandoned).

If this isn’t bad enough, the Hongs and Julianas of Wisconsin have other bills including a local option super tax, which is a great way to chase entrepreneurs out of your city.

But the point is that this is unserious policy. To call it sophomoric is an insult to sophomores.

This is economic suicide that can only come from the fever dreams of fervent communists.

After reading it, I’m more motivated than ever to elect @TomTiffanyWI.

@HeartlandPostWI @DanLennington @DanODonnellShow @VickiMcKenna @maciverwisc @AFPWI @WILawLiberty @meganjnovak @yount1130 @WisGOP @alexbruesewitz

[John @JackpineWI]

@JonathanTurley No Kings, but it’s okay to have a Queen.

[Scott Walker @ScottWalker]

Still one of my favorite ⁦@starwars⁩ references…

[John @JackpineWI]

@pmo1346 @GDaddyzs Nebraska gave Minnesota Gov. Walz.

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@bluelivesmtr 99% of Educators can’t change their own tire let alone do search and rescue in a fire condition.

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@tommysantos14 @libsoftiktok Seeing that District Courts are routinely overruled, no one will ever know if the merger was truly “illegal”.

Spirit and JetBlue did appeal the verdict, but the 1st Circuit would not expedite their hearing and the case was dropped because the merger agreement expired.