The Wisconsin Cheese Showdown

[Gustaf]

Outside economists have estimated a large budget deficit over the next 3 years.

http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/publications/workingpapers/reschovsky2010-016.pdf

Let me guess: they proposed a series of tax cuts to fix the deficit.

Let me correct you: no they do not. They actually do not give a policy recommendation at all, but simply note that Wisconsin will have to raise taxes and/or cut spending while also noting that it seems likely that spending cuts will  largely reduce services, since there is little room for efficiency gains.

But I guess a troll post was much easier to make than actually looking at the link.

[Gustaf]

Outside economists have estimated a large budget deficit over the next 3 years.

http://www.lafollette.wisc.edu/publications/workingpapers/reschovsky2010-016.pdf

Let me guess: they proposed a series of tax cuts to fix the deficit.

Let me correct you: no they do not. They actually do not give a policy recommendation at all, but simply note that Wisconsin will have to raise taxes and/or cut spending while also noting that it seems likely that spending cuts will  largely reduce services, since there is little room for efficiency gains.

But I guess a troll post was much easier to make than actually looking at the link.

What's wrong with you man? If you fail to detect sarcasm that doesn't make someone a troll, more likely it means you're a humorless bore.

I got the impression that you assumed he was citing Republicans and therefore was being sarcastic about Republicans always wanting tax cuts. I thought that was pretty sloppy.

Regardless, you seem to usually respond to everything with hyperbole which isn't very constructive and this struck me as a good example.

If there was something funny that I missed, my apologies though. I'm far from perfect, but I'm certainly not humourless.

[Gustaf]

The people in the 1930s died for union rights in the private sector. Unfortunately they were undercut by Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. Wake me up when there's a UAW chapter striking at the Hyundai plant.

Actually with free trade with foreign countries the slave South is irrelevant.

Why should everyone else buy American when you're buying Thai?

[Gustaf]

The people in the 1930s died for union rights in the private sector. Unfortunately they were undercut by Alabama, Arizona, Oklahoma and Texas. Wake me up when there's a UAW chapter striking at the Hyundai plant.

Actually with free trade with foreign countries the slave South is irrelevant.

Why should everyone else buy American when you're buying Thai?

because I relocated

Then why shouldn't corporations be allowed to relocate their factories so as to allow them to buy cheap Thai labour as well?

[Gustaf]

This is great:

Actually really awesome and touching, in a way. Great message.

I think the battle of the Wisconsin middle class for more taxpayer money, noble as it may be, is hardly comparable to the battle of the Egyptian people for basic human rights. But that may be just me...