Politics, like professional sports, is an industry that survives on clichés. Arguably one of the biggest clichés in politics today is the often unrealistic push for bipartisanship. Somewhere on Planet Lefty is a fantasy world where everyone sees everything the same and the two parties never disagree. In the words of President Obama, let me…
Lasee’s Notes
Lasee’s Notes
Lasee's Notes
Lasee’s Notes
OPEC Who? I never thought we would see this day. Imagine the US as the world’s top producer of crude oil. Producing more than Venezuela. Producing more than the Middle East. Even more than OPEC. The International Energy Agency has said the US (barring regulatory action by the government) will overtake Saudi Arabia within the…
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Lasee’s Notes
Energy Answers are NOT Blowing in the Wind Environmentalists, Democrats, and corporate wind interests see wind power as the future. They are committed to it because they believe it will protect the environment by magically replacing the use of fossil fuels (and make some wealthy). Such deluded notions have no basis in fact. The truth…
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Lasee’s Notes: State Stewardship Land
How do you eat a state? One acre at a time! It turns out the largest land owner in the State of Wisconsin is government. We (meaning taxpayers) own six and a half million of the 35 million acres in the state (counties own nearly 3 million acres, the state owns nearly 2 million…
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Lasee’s Notes
By Sen. Frank Lasee, who represents the First Senate District in Northeast Wisconsin. The Benefits of Oil In just the six years between 2006 and 2012, North Dakota’s per capita income (its total economic output divided by its population) shot up from 38th in the country to 6th. How was this economic miracle possible?…
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Wisconsin’s Tax Climate Taxing small
America’s 50 different states have 50 different tax codes. This variation lets states experiment and learn from each other which policies work best. Laboratories of democracy as our founding fathers intended. Each year, the nonpartisan Tax Foundation ranks states based on their business tax climate. This ranking takes into account state tax rates, the different…