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Wisconsin is a state with chronically high taxes that stifle our economic growth and freedom.

Our recent recession has hit our families hard, and the politicians have responded with the wrong answers.

Instead of cutting government spending in Madison, the politicians responded with $3 billion in higher taxes and fees in 2009. They didn’t cut bureaucrats, posh pensions, or Cadillac – no, Rolls Royce – health care benefits. Milwaukee city and schools continue to tax-and-spend beyond reason with government officials acting as the hand maidens of special interests.

At the Capitol, Governor Jim Doyle and the Democrat Legislature raised business taxes, and the business community recoiled and retrenched from hiring. Our unemployment rate topped 8 percent, and neared 9 percent. Some communities have double digit, depression-level unemployment.

It’s time for citizens to impose their will on government.

Wisconsin needs a new direction. We need a new covenant with the people dedicated to providing frugality and common sense and to provide tax relief, and personal economic freedom for our families, our businesses, our farmers, and our retirees.

At Citizens for Responsible Government, we have been on the frontlines of defending taxpayers for nearly a decade.

CRG led the fight against former Milwaukee County Executive Tom Ament over the scandalous county pension scam with million dollar payouts, and golden parachutes. We drove Ament from office, and set the stage for fiscal reform.

And, we’ve helped citizens take on Milwaukee County Board Chairman Lee Holloway, and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett for their big-spending, wasteful ways.

We are establishing the Waste Watcher Blog as a public service to the citizens of our state.

At Waste Watchers Blog, we will expose the politicians who pamper pension-padders, the despots who defend day-care desperados, and other wilfull wasters who terrorize tired taxpayers. And, we’ll celebrate the heroes of tax relief and economic freedom.

Our mission will be to engage the public to take action to promote policies aimed at lowering our tax burden, and raising the standard of living of all Wisconsin families. We’ll bring you the stories you won’t find in the mainstream media.

The analysis they won’t provide, and the news they won’t cover. And, when the media gets it right, we’ll share it with you here to help spread the word.

We hope to provide our blog as an open forum for citizen bloggers to post their stories of waste, fraud and abuse. And, we hope to have some fun too, with interesting tales of taxpayer heroes and villains.

Wisconsin Waste Watcher blog is an open forum from Citizens for Responsible Government to expose waste, fraud, and abuse in Wisconsin government in the interest of lowering our tax burden. Wisconsin Waste Watchers blog welcomes citizen posts, tips, and comments. Our families will prosper when government is frugal!