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Act/React

Today @ the Milwaukee Art Museum

by Shepherd Express Staff

Dec. 16, 2008

midnight

The recent exhibit at Milwaukee Art Museum titled "Act/React" reveals the weightlessness that art engenders by erasing all memory of itself. Using interactive digital technology that springs to life through motion or touch, each of the pieces included in the exhibit not only illustrates the manner in which we engage with space but actually affects how we occupy it. It’s as engaging, engrossing and sometimes overwhelming an exhibit as the art museum has featured in a long time.

Comments (5)

The point is not whether or not he legally dodged ...

The point is not whether or not he legally dodged paying taxes. Well-respected accounting firms can find plenty of legal loopholes to help wealthy business owners avoid paying taxes.
Nobody is saying that he should go to jail. The bottom line is that I'm not going to vote for a guy who makes 2.6 million dollars, but weasles his way out of paying his fair share.
Roads need to be plowed, schools need to be staffed, garbage needs to be picked up.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

@Stuart: So, you actually underlined the word LEGA...

@Stuart: So, you actually underlined the word LEGAL with regard to loopholes, then referred to Wall as having "weaseled" out of paying his taxes. Do you pay more taxes than you are legally required to? Or have you unilaterally decided that you pay your "fair share?" Do you understand that Wall's companies have paid tons in payroll taxes, employed WI citizens, but failed to make a proft, or perhaps had offsetting losses/profits- thus requiring no income tax burden for the shareholders? This article also does not define what "earned 2.6 million dollars" means. How was the money earned? Unrealized gains in stock values, maybe? As far as WI citizens "underwriting his business", he is employing WI citizens!! Investment tax credits and depreciation mean that he is investing in depreciable goods, also helping maintain employment levels. For god's sake, unless you people have a decent grasp of tax law and accounting, don't even attempt to comment on this tripe.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

All the legalistic gymnastics justifying Wall's fr...

All the legalistic gymnastics justifying Wall's free ride are attempts to evade simple fairness. If his personal income is $2.6 million and he pays zero in taxes, then everyone else is covering his share of the bill, whatever it might be. Just like hedge fund managers paying capital gains tax instead of income tax on earnings from other people's money, it's unfair and wrong on the face of it, and just another example of a systematic kleptocracy abetted by Republican and Democratic officals alike.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

This fixation on Terrence Walls taxes seems a bit ...

This fixation on Terrence Walls taxes seems a bit backwards. His taxes are prepared by a well respected accounting firm complying with state law. He has paid every penny of taxes that he has owed. If you have a problem with his not owing any taxes, you should be addressing Governor Doyle and the demoractic-controlled state legislature. Your problem is with them, not with Terrence Wall. Terrence Wall doesn't make tax law, he just complies with the tax laws the democrats create. Your anger should be directed at the democrats who created the tax law - not the businessmen who comply with it.

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

What exactly would Wall's "fair share" be? If his...

What exactly would Wall's "fair share" be? If his companies did not make a profit, should he or they still pay some taxes? You can be assured that the Dept. of Revenue did not allow him to skip on the payroll taxes, which are an enormous expense for any business. Are you suggesting that depreciation is not a legitimate expense for businesses? Are you against tax credits for businesses? Or maybe just businesses owned by white men opposing Russ Feingold for a Senate seat? Maybe you can have Obey write that into the state tax codes...

Anonymous more than 14 years ago

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