Wisconsin Jobs Now Protests at Ribble’s Green Bay Office

Workers will pay more.

Members and supporters of the Wisconsin based organization Wisconsin Jobs Now visited the Green Bay office of Congressman Ribble, Reid [R] today to express their dissatisfaction with Republican vote to block the bipartisan Senate plan for a $1,000 payroll tax cut for 160 million middle income taxpayers. The Payroll Tax Compromise was a bipartisan effort to keep in effect the lower tax rates of 4.2 percent of your pay for Social Security and 10.4 for the self-employed. The rates will now increase by 10%.  Last year around this time a President Obama basically had to agree to an extension of Bush-era tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans to pass a similar Bill. There was no option to submit to political blackmail this year.

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The only worker at the office present was a “social worker” who was neither a secretary nor had any idea of the Congressman’s schedule the protesters were told. She did have the contact information for the person to contact to determine the congressman’s schedule. That person and their office is in Appleton. The worker, Kerry Niemcek , has a degree in Journalism and Political Science.  Stated her sole mission was only to address veteran’s issues. One veteran asked what he would need to do to find out what medical benefits he was entitled to by his service in the US Marine Reserve. She did not know the answer immediately. As a veteran, I did. There is a website by the Department of Veteran’s Affairs that a former serviceman can enter his service dates and will receive a review and estimate of available benefits. She did get back to the veteran with an answer by mid- afternoon. She stated in her call for the veteran to direct his inquiry to the Brown County Veterans office. 

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