Always check your b.s. detector's batteries when Walker or one of his GOP legislative water carriers say the law needs more "certainty" for corporate Wisconsin.
Happened again today as the GOP-run State Assembly, already having targeted poor people with food stamp restrictions and mandatory drug testing, decided to add some fresh certainty for owners of 'rent-to-own' firms, by exempting them from disclosing to customers who may be low-income or poorly-educated that items they're buying on time can come with interest rates as high as 350%.
He also claimed that the de-regulatory proposal would still provide "world class consumer protections" - - and another Republican legislator touted an amendment which "will require rent-to-own companies to contribute $1 for each rental-purchase agreement to financial literacy programs."
That reminded me of the truths in Paul Newman's famous summation in "The Verdict" which I saw again the other night, and thought you might want to see that clip, too.
This little portion certainly encapsulates this horrible Assembly bill and much of politics and life and law in Wisconsin under this deadening, donor-driven, conscience-free Republican governance:
Happened again today as the GOP-run State Assembly, already having targeted poor people with food stamp restrictions and mandatory drug testing, decided to add some fresh certainty for owners of 'rent-to-own' firms, by exempting them from disclosing to customers who may be low-income or poorly-educated that items they're buying on time can come with interest rates as high as 350%.
...Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said the goal of the legislation is to "create certainty for the industry but also have world class consumer protections."
That reminded me of the truths in Paul Newman's famous summation in "The Verdict" which I saw again the other night, and thought you might want to see that clip, too.
This little portion certainly encapsulates this horrible Assembly bill and much of politics and life and law in Wisconsin under this deadening, donor-driven, conscience-free Republican governance:
I mean there is no justice. The rich win; the poor are powerless. We become tired of hearing people lie. And after a time we become dead, a little dead. We think of ourselves as victims -- and we become victims. We become weak; we doubt ourselves; we doubt our beliefs; we doubt our institutions; and we doubt the law.