Nick Fleisher
Linguist at UW-Milwaukee. Syntax & semantics, higher ed, Wisconsin politics &c.
- The Curb Your Enthusiasm episode with the doll's head
- The revenue limit is what districts can spend per pupil. They vary a lot because they were frozen in place in the early 90s. But the math is simple: Revenue limit = state funding + property taxes If RL goes up & state $ is flat, prop taxes go up If RL is flat & state $ goes up, prop taxes go down
- Property taxes are up in Wisconsin because the legislature did not increase K-12 funding to keep pace with the revenue limit increase. The Republicans who control the legislature only want to increase K-12 funding when the revenue limit is flat, which turns the "K-12 funding" into a property tax cut
- Property taxes are up in Wisconsin because the legislature did not increase K-12 funding to keep pace with the revenue limit increase. The Republicans who control the legislature only want to increase K-12 funding when the revenue limit is flat, which turns the "K-12 funding" into a property tax cut
- Also you have GOP senators on Joint Finance saying plainly innumerate shit like this (over 400 years this would make the revenue limits for every district effectively equivalent)
- The level of intellectual dishonesty it takes to portray Trump as the restrained upholder of the rule of law
- What if we had expectations for Republicans?
- It's just omnidirectional gratuitous destruction with this administration
- Unbelievably bleak in a way that is very familiar to anyone who works at a university these days
- "We've all got your backs" is an amazing dependent plural
- Bezos is doing to the Washington Post what Trump is doing to the Kennedy Center
- Why let boring explanations like price, climate, football, social media, active outreach, etc get in the way of a convoluted, bespoke, very racist brainfart?
