Subject: [big campaign] Fwd: GOP Save-Face Plan for Walker: 'Kill Rail to Pay 0.001 Percent for Extending Bush Tax Cuts for Millionaires'
From: "Aniello Alioto, ProgressNow" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 13:16:02 -0500
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THIS is how one goes on offense.
Well played One Wisconsin Now!

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From: One WI Now <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:12 PM
Subject: GOP Save-Face Plan for Walker: 'Kill Rail to Pay 0.001 Percent for
Extending Bush Tax Cuts for Millionaires'
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*For Immediate Release
November 17, 2010*
*Contact: Robert Doeckel
Phone: 608-217-0194*

 GOP Save-Face Plan for Walker: ‘Kill Rail to Pay 0.001 Percent for
Extending Bush Tax Cuts for Millionaires’ *Ryan, Sensenbrenner, Petri Offer
to Sacrifice Thousands of Jobs to Help Pay for Deficit Tax Cuts for RoJo*

Madison -- Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. House delegation has given fellow
Republican and Gov.-elect Scott Walker a new option in his effort to kill
the thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic development high
speed rail would bring to Wisconsin: Pay for one thousandth of one percent
of the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts to the wealthiest top two percent
of income earners.

“What a great solution destroy high speed rail to pay one-thousandth of one
percent of the cost of extending the Bush tax cuts for millionaires,” said
Scot Ross, One Wisconsin Now Executive Director. “Considering the Bush tax
cuts for the rich created the economic collapse that cost us millions of
jobs, the Republicans see these tax breaks as the gift that keeps on
taking.”

Since his election, Walker has tried to backtrack from his original call to
kill the federally-funded high speed rail project, which could create
billions of dollars of economic development in Wisconsin and create as many
as 13,000 jobs in the state. Walker has been thwarted in his ill-advised
effort to transfer the money to road construction. In an attempt to help
Walker, GOP U.S. House Reps. Paul Ryan, Jim Sensenbrenner and Tom Petri
announced their intention to author a bill calling for potentially-returned
federal funding for the program to go towards deficit reduction.

House Republicans have also called for extension of the Bush tax cuts to the
richest top two percent, at a cost well over $700 billion. Republicans have
held hostage efforts to extend tax cuts to the other 98 percent of income
earners.

“The only thing worse than killing high speed rail and the jobs it would
create would be doing it to pay for tax cuts for the rich,” said Ross. “The
irony is that Scott Walker won’t say how he’s going to pay for his plan for
$5 billion in state tax breaks, loopholes and shifts for the rich and big
business, but he will sacrifice thousands of jobs by helping the federal
government make a tiny downpayment to give millionaire Ron Johnson more Bush
tax cuts.”

More than 6,000 people have signed on to One Wisconsin Now's letter to
Walker urging him to 'Save the Train' and keep thousands of jobs in
Wisconsin. The letter can be found at
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