Helpful Solutions for Cleaning Up Madison

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American Spectator:

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that "State officials said Thursday that damage to the marble inside and out the State Capitol would cost an estimated $7.5 million." Much of the damage isn't actually chipping, cracking, etc., but residue from tape used to put up protest signs. I have a few helpful suggestions designed to allow the state to avoid much or most of that cost.

First, if it could really cost that much money to remove some tape residue -- even a lot of tape residue -- the state must be using some sort of unionized labor to get the job done. Instead, Governor Walker should get one expert on such cleanup, have him instruct any interested College Republicans in Wisconsin how to safely remove the residue from marble, and send the students out to do the job. They'll work for minimum wage and pizza (and beer when nobody is looking). I just saved Wisconsin $7 million.

Second, the state could deduct the cost for the cleanup from every public sector union in the state proportionately to the number of members they have. This perhaps after billing each doctor who wrote bogus "doctor's notes" for protesters an amount equal to their daily salaries (if they're public sector employees themselves) plus the daily salaries of each person for whom the doctor wrote a note for each day that person protested beginning on the day the note was written. This suggestion, if implemented, would argue against getting a better deal on cleanup with the help of volunteer College Republicans; if Wisconsin goes this route, it should buy the kids pizza anyway. In this case, I just saved Wisconsin $7.5 million less the cost of a few larges with pepperoni.