K-12 Tax & Spending Climate: Bi-Partisan Fiscal Indulgences Shift more Taxes to the "little people"

Chris Rickert

The bill's author and primary sponsor, Republican Rep. Joel Kleefisch of Oconomowoc, says that broadcasters have poured lots of money into their operations to make them compatible with an increasingly digital world, and he lauds the "distinctive link" between the stations and the communities they serve.

Co-sponsor Rep. Brett Hulsey, a liberal Madison Democrat not usually given to signing on to Republican bills, is more blunt.

"I co-sponsored this bill because employers from the TV and radio stations in my district asked me to," he said. "There are four TV stations and 13 radio stations, and they employ over 200 people in the district."

This is typical of the approach legislators take to taxes, according to Berry. "Somebody will come to them and ask them to carve out some teeny exemption."

And over time, they add up.

Much more on fiscal indulgences and our political class, here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 31, 2013 1:11 AM
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