I’ll say one thing about Democrats, they love spending other people’s money, and they do so with no feeling at all. That’s what is clinically referred to as sociopathic behavior. Did you know that? It’s true.

Those people have a knack for inventing ways to take your money. It’s unbelievable. I wouldn’t be surprised if they invented a new carbon tax for every person to pay based on how many times they exhale on average. Oops! Probably shouldn’t have said that. I might have given one of them an idea.

Well, three Wisconsin Democrats are trying to charge you for them complying with the law. Honest to goodness. Why do some of you vote for the person with a “D” behind their names? Are you mental?

[Madison, Wisc…] Three Dane County Democratic lawmakers want to charge a free market think tank more than $7,500  to comply with open record requests for correspondence regarding one legislative initiative….

In an email response dated March 30, Representative Mark Pocan (D-Madison) personally alleged it would take two staffers, working full time, two weeks to comply with the request.

“A quick review of our office files pertaining to collective bargaining laws for public employees, 2011 SSSB 11, 2011 SSAB 11, and 2011 Wis. Act 10 indicates that there are over 8,000 documents that would meet this search criteria,” Pocan wrote. “Our office anticipates that copying costs for this request will be a minimum of $1,500 and that fulfilling this request will require approximately 80 hours of staff time, which if pro rated for staff salaries, would cost approximately $2,600.”

Mike Murray, a member of Representative Joe Parisi (D-Madison) staff offered a similar response via email one day earlier.

“A cursory review of our office files pertaining to collective bargaining laws for public employees, 2011 SSSB 11, 2011 SSAB 11, and 2011 Wis. Act 10 indicates that there are, at a minimum, 8,000 documents that would meet this search criteria,” Murray wrote on March 29. “Our office anticipates that copying costs for this request will be a minimum of $1,500 and that fulfilling this request will require approximately 60 hours of staff time, which if pro rated for staff salaries, would cost approximately $1,750.”

While more vague, Senator Erpenbach’s staff did not quote such exorbitant fees for access to this public information.

“It will indeed cost in excess of $50,” said Julie Landrie of the Erpenbach (D-Middleton) office, who on March 28 was the first to respond to the MacIver request. “I’m making that estimation based on the fact I just fulfilled a request that had half of the content and half of the days and it was $378 to locate and an additional $20 to copy.”

So let’s put this in proper perspective. According to the constitution, we, the people are the bosses (the employers). So you work in the private sector and your boss tells you to make available all documents pertaining to one of your customers, and you tell the boss that before you do your job and comply with his directive, he must pay you an additional 2,000 dollars for your effort. Does that make sense to anybody? It does to Representative Mark Pocan (D-Madison), Representative Joe Parisi (D-Madison) and Senator Jon Erpenbach (D-Middleton).