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State government has yet to decide how to use more than a third of its $2.8 billion. Cities, towns and counties have until the end of 2026 to spend their $2.1 billion.
American Rescue Plan money has already gone to everything from police to sewers.
Simplify it to the extent that we have distorted what's happening. there's a lot of that no one understands but if you step back you see the government disincentivizing work, incentivizing idleness, sending a message there is no dignity and work and no meaning and why bother and what effect does that have? the effect was encapsulated perfectly and everything that you just said. not to blow smoke or show too much of my own bias. that's the greatest monologue i've heard you do. this is no longer a matter of a skills gap or a few million people unemployed and employers frustrated because of the m...
Is get us out of this poverty trap where we're trapping people in poverty, disincentivizing work. you know, we've been talking about tax rate always over the place. the corporations pay this, the small businesses -- you know who pays the highest tax rate in america? single mom with two kids getting 24 grand in benefits that will lose 80 cents on the dollar if she gets a job. we are trapping people in lives of dependency and poverty. they're making rational decisions. let's change our laws so we push and pull people out of poverty into the workforce. the great thing about tax reform coming righ...
The poor are being marginalized and misaligned in many ways because a lot of the programs that we have, well intended as they may be, are discouraging and disincentivizing work. we were just -- no, it's true. we were just talking about -- we were just talking about tax reform. and i was telling you about these successful small businesses in wisconsin. they got a 44.6% tax rate. that's not the highest tax rate pair. i mean, aaron rodgers who deserves every salary is not the highest tax rate pair yer in th state. you know who it is? it's a single mom getting 24 grand in benefits with two kids wh...