Wisconsin Assembly, District 79/Asamblea de Wisconsin, Distrito 79
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John Fons
(Rep)
Please describe your priorities for your term in office and your specific qualifications to effectively address those issues.
What do you see as the most pressing housing-related issue in Wisconsin, and what policies, if any, would you support to address the issue?
What redistricting process, if any, do you believe the legislature should put in place before the next national census to ensure fair representation for voters?
What, if anything, will you do to ensure our schools have the resources to improve outcomes for its students, including those with disabilities?
What guardrails, if any, would you support to protect our environment, health, property values, and household budgets from large projects such as hyperscale data centers and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs)?
Committee
John E Fons Election Committee
Campaign Phone
608-628-1313
Education
BA Religion; Master of Theology
Property taxes affect every aspect of life in community. In crass terms, it's the money. With it you do what you can afford. Without it, you can't do much. Taxes have the power to force people out of their homes, deny them simple pleasures or plan a future of their own. Taxes drive away commerce and make everything more expensive. I advocate property tax reform and with it a devotion to public education that merits the investment made with the full knowledge that unless our children learn and discipline themselves to learning the future holds no promise. Specifically, I would re-introduce Assembly Bill 1 which allocated $300,000,000 for special education, plus tax rebates to all Wisconsin workers and no tax on tips or overtime wages.
Affordable housing is a convenient turn of phrase, but without jobs and commerce to provide income and a financial foundation for workers in Wisconsin, Affordable becomes a word used to disguise the more accurate term which is Subsidized. Where does the money come from? It is ground out of taxpayers and emptied from their wallets. Investors may seek high returns on their real estate developments and promoters may enjoy lucrative commissions, but eventually without the jobs and the companies and the work it takes to sustain an economy Affordable Housing becomes a House of Unaffordable Cards that falls to the ground.
When engineers design roads, when surveyors lay out sections and townships, they do so in a systematic and orderly fashion. Politics turn geography into a crazy quilt and boundaries are drawn and redrawn to satisfy the expedience of power. Districts should be established on geographic lines and benchmarks and remain so despite other factors which change as frequently as the weather.
Children don't ask much. They go to school to learn. They go to be guided and given the tools they need to go into life reasonably prepared. I have attended local school board meetings where discussion lasted over an hour on the subject of student cell phones and less than thirty minutes on a budget involving hundreds of millions of dollars. I have had the privilege of knowing international students who simultaneously carry two full course loads, one here and one in their country of origin, students who study sixteen hours a day, students who enjoy international careers because they are fluent in two or more languages and none of them require deluxe school accommodations. They require inspiration and high ideals.
If you don't want Data Centers or Commercial Feed Lots nearby just say so. The only sure way to keep things nice and tidy or preserve the status quo or the environment is to ban these developments, forbid their placement. If that proves unacceptable, then apply all the standards, tests, inspections and procedures necessary to assure people a safe glass of drinking water, a good supply of brats for the family picnic or plenty of storage for their cell phones, smart phones and personal computers. If other people in other places accept these conditions and we expect to use their infrastructure, our prices will predictably increase and we will have no leverage whatsoever against whatever prices they impose.
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