Toon: Wisconsin's Malice
"Wisconsin's Malice." Editorial cartoon by Gregory Crawford. © 2015 World News Trust
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paulkienitz
(1,296 posts)erronis
(15,185 posts)It's almost a game - testing the limits:
How low can you go before the M$M even notices?
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)That is their party moto, isn't it?!?
Gothmog
(144,951 posts)the_sly_pig
(740 posts)If it needs explaining that education, compassion and empathy are ends in themselves you are already lost. West Michigan.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)They don't exactly ban the purchase of these items, but there are certain restrictions that are somewhat bizarre.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... Here's the list to which I referred when writing this cartoon.
https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p4/p44578.pdf
And while the Snopes entry definitely clarifies certain elements of the discussion, and rightly exposes the sensationalism of too many headlines, the larger point is that Republican-controlled legislatures are relentlessly victimizing those least able to defend themselves through legal channels, while corporate interests that exploit legal loopholes created for their benefit by said Republican-controlled legislatures routinely steal more from the residents of the state, by several orders of magnitude, than the entire S.N.A.P. program costs.