One Wisconsin Now exposes tax cheats. Guess who. Our old pal, randy Randy.

[Scuba]

In my email today (excerpted)...

I just came to our office from the Palin and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity corporate sideshow, and I can still hear her words clanging in my ears.

Sarah Palin said Gov. Walker and the Senate and Assembly Republicans showed “courage.”

“Courage”? Hurting Wisconsin’s seniors, students and working families to pay off Wall Street and corporate America with our tax dollars is as far from courage as Madison is from Palin’s Alaska. The agenda of Randy Hopper, Dan Kapanke, Alberta Darling, Scott Walker and the rest of them doesn’t show “courage,” it is the definition of cowardice.

Gov. Walker and the Senate and Assembly Republicans have a different idea -- tax breaks for big business and those at the top.
You need only look at Randy Hopper to see their agenda personified.

In 2008, Randy Hopper railed against high taxes and it was One Wisconsin Now which investigated and found out not only had Hopper paid state income tax once in ten years, but his two biggest businesses hadn’t paid a dime in state income taxes.

Now he wants to end capital gains taxes for the toys of millionaires. And he wants you to pay for it.

[Viking12]

1. Tax-Shy Randy Hopper's $250 Million Yearly Capital Gains Giveaway

Tax Avoiding Senator Proposes Deficit-Growing Tax Break Primarily Helping Wealthy

Madison - Sen. Randy Hopper (R-Fond du Lac), who paid net state income taxes once in ten years, has proposed an end to capital gains taxes, which primarily benefit the wealthy and would cost $250 million a year, according to the non-partisan Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

"How much less than zero does Randy Hopper think he should have to pay in taxes," said Ross. "Ending capital gains taxes overwhelmingly benefits rich people, doesn't create private sector jobs and would create an annual $250 million hole in the state budget."

Hopper introduced his plan this week to repeal recent changes to the state's generous capital gains loophole and end capital gains taxes all together in three years. The first part of this plan would add $243 million to the current $3.3 billion budget deficit for the next two years and full implementation of the Hopper capital gains scheme would top $250 million every year.

Hopper's lack of tax payment was raised in an article in the Fond du Lac Reporter in October 2008. The article noted that Hopper not only paid state income tax just once in ten years, but also had three businesses, which also paid no net state income tax. According to the article, "In 2006 he paid $22,752 in state tax due, he said, to capital gains from the sale of one of the two radio stations he owns in Sheboygan."

-more at link-

http://www.onewisconsinnow.org/press/tax-shy-randy-hoppers-250-million-yearly-capital-gains-giveaway.html

[Angry Dragon]

2. He probably needs that extra money to keep that mistress

seeing how much younger she is........
and looking ahead when he sells any business to pay off the future ex-wife

[Viking12]

3. rumor has it that she's knocked-up

[Angry Dragon]

4. Did not know that