Let 'em Tax!!

Want a mystery to solve?

When the City and County of Milwaukee want to tax the Hell out of their residents, why does the State put up barriers?

The state relief that cash-strapped Milwaukee and Milwaukee County have been calling for could come to fruition after all — but there's a long road ahead and many details yet to work out.

Chief among them is whether the city can commit long-term to maintaining its police force, which has declined in recent years as budget pressures have grown.

State Sen. Dale Kooyenga, R-Brookfield, at a panel discussion Tuesday raised the possibility that the state could permit the sales tax increase local leaders have been seeking, allowing the city and county to address pressing pension obligations while lowering property taxes....

Kooyenga seems to think that a large Milwaukee police department reduces crime.

Wrong, Senator.  No matter the size of the cop shop, the District Attorney and Milwaukee's courts will continue to release accused (and often, convicted) felons into the population.

Milwaukee has for decades overspent on frivolities and--by the way--police and fire pensions and benefits.  It has counted on its Democrat friends in Madison to bail it out, until those Democrat friends were voted out of office by Wisconsin citizens grown sick and tired of shoveling money into the SE corner-toilet.

Let 'em tax, Senator.  It's the right thing to do.