Wisconsin: GOP finds another way to screw the People and help the corporations

[Scuba]

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/bills-limiting-lawsuits-added-to-legislatures-jobs-session-130954073.html?page=1


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Madison - People who successfully sue for injuries would earn a lower interest rate on their judgments than banks and credit card companies who take their customers to court, under a bill Gov. Scott Walker included in the upcoming special legislative session on jobs.

Also included among the 30-some bills Walker has offered for the special session are two others by Zipperer that would give drug-makers immunity from lawsuits and limit the amount plaintiffs' attorneys can charge in some cases.

For more than three decades, those ordered to pay court judgments have had to pay 12% in annual interest if they do not make their payment right away. Under one of Zipperer's proposals, people who successfully bring a personal injury case or sue under the state's consumer credit law would instead earn the prime rate plus 1%, or 4.25% currently.

But banks, landlords and credit card companies that successfully sue people would still get the full 12%.

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"Of the People, by the People, for the People". Corporations are people, right?




sarcasm thingy

[tularetom]

1. I had to click on the link

Just to find out whether or not "Zipperer" was a real person.

As to your comment at the end - even if corporations are people, there aren't enough of them to elect douchebags like Walker (or Zipperer). The other kind of people, you know, the ones with hearts and presumably brains, have to vote for them as well. When you read an article like this it's hard to believe that anybody who didn't own a bank or a credit card company ever would vote for them.