Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce (WMC) Sucked Into Black Hole: No One Notices

On June 25th the Wisconsin State Senate included universal health care in its budget. From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Democrats advance state budget

Flexing political muscle they lacked for four years, Democrats on Tuesday pushed through the Senate a budget with historic tax increases, a $15.2 billion universal health care plan...

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce then hired the thugs from Washington D.C., The Tax Foundation to evaluate the Democrat-proposed budget:

Things We Thought We’d Never See at the Tax Foundation, But Thanks to the Wisconsin Senate

The Wisconsin Senate passed a budget plan to increase taxes $15.2 billion in fiscal year 2009...

and this, Wisconsin's Tax Burden if $15.2 Billion Tax Increase Passes:

However, if the $15.2 billion tax increase were in effect for 2007, Wisconsin's tax burden would increase to 19.3 percent and rank 1^st- 5.2 percentage points higher than Vermont's 14.1 percent tax burden that currently ranks highest nationally.

which led to WMC to issue a press release on June 29, 2007, WI Tax Burden Tops In Nation Under Senate Budget

An analysis by the non-partisan Tax Foundation shows that if the budget passed by the Wisconsin State Senate this week were signed into law, Wisconsin would not only have the highest state and local tax burden in the nation, it would have the largest state and local tax burden in the history of the United States of America...

Which led to this kind to all of Wisconsin's newspapers, radio, and television stations to file accordingly. No one covered it:

Obviously, the media does not view the adoption of universal health care added into a state budget as a fair basis for comparing overall taxation. In fact, the revenue for universal health is more of a fee than a tax.