In reward for the gigantic failures of the Foxconn scheme, which @mercatus found in a Dec. 2019 study may reduce the GDP of Wisconsin by $6 billion, @ScottWalker is moving to the presidency of @YAF, where his compensation is sure to jump up to $1 million. https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/15/back-in-the-news-walkers-new-job-will-pay-plenty/">https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/1...
Here& #39;s a story by @BruceMurphyMKE on @mercatus study on #Foxconn—again, as he points out, the center bills itself as "the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas." Check out what the total cost could have been...now that& #39;s conservative https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/12/05/murphys-law-foxconn-may-cut-state-gdp-by-6-billion/">https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/12/0...
This Oct. 1999 report on the right-wing "welfare reform" experiment / inaccuracies from @TommyThompsonWI and allies was key in my understanding of what would later be described as "juking the stats." The GOP has long cultivated recognizably immoral goals. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1999/10/07/the-end-of-welfare/">https://www.nybooks.com/articles/...
Almost no one reading this thread will switch their party affiliation from these economic links—my audience is the people who patrol the boundaries of what& #39;s legislatively possible from Dems, and who keep not following progressive path and getting rocked.

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