This group is late to the party; CYPers may not know this: the City of Milwaukee passed, at referendum, an ordinance that all employers must grant each employee a certain amount of sick leave. The ordinance has now been challenged in court on the grounds that a city, under Wisconsin law, does not have the power ...
Remember when President Obama promised to improve America’s image on the world stage? Thus far, the president has shaken Hugo Chavez’s hand with a smile, asked North Korea politely to play nicely with others (oddly enough, test missiles have not stopped flying since), and has now managed to snub Great Britain, America’s closest ally, not once, ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329282377252471.html Maryland made its state income tax heavily progressive or “fair”. They taxed the heck out of the rich. So the rich are leaving. This is not revolutionary–you can read about it in introductory economics class–people making money don’t like to give it to the government and if they have options that are not as ...
We as a group are trying to focus more on state and local issues, those issues that touch our lives in a direct manner. Therefore, I apologize for making the jump to the federal level. As screwed up as Madison and Milwaukee appear, the hypocrisy in Washington is sometimes simply too obvious to ignore. President Obama has ...
Just a decade ago, California was the place to be. The state looked economically unstoppable. It had a technology boom. It was attracting the best and the brightest to create whole new industries. It has great weather. California looked to be the future and a land full of riches. But then something happened. It didn’t ...
Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. Dear Madam,– I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090519/bs_nm/us_obama_emissions Pres. Obama has released a plan to make the car industry achieve ambitious fuel standards. It will add about $1,300 to the price of the car. Obama said car buyers would recoup the money with the lower fuel costs realized under more efficient mileage standards. “This is a winning proposition for folks looking to buy a ...
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124217336075913063.html Introductory economics at Harvard is known as EC 10. In my day, it was taught by Marty Feldstein, the latest in a long line of great economists to teach the course. Marty is fiscally conservative. But if you were paying attention, the most important thing that you could learn from Ec10 was that there ...
CYP, along with co-host Milwaukee County GOP, will be hosting a Milwaukee Brewers tailgate on Saturday June 27th at Miller Park. The Milwaukee Brewers face the San Francisco Giants at 6:05pm. The cost is $30 per person. This includes a ticket to the game, catered food and drink. There are a limited number of tickets ...
What is the difference between a conservative and liberal judge? Do politics influence too many judges? What is judicial activism and why must we pick judges that avoid it? Mike Brennan, a retiring Milwaukee Circuit Court judge and leading Milwaukee conservative will briefly answer these questions at a reception on May 21st at the Milwaukee ...