Tax avenger takes message to small-town WI

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

SHAWANO — Jim Tobin is frustrated, and he’ll tell you so.

“It’s been so difficult getting the information from these lazy … bureaucrats,” Tobin said in a phone interview Tuesday.

Tobin is president of Taxpayers United of America, which organizes and mobilizes taxpayers to defeat tax increases. TUA is based in Chicago, where Tobin lives and works.

Thomas Madsen is Shawano County’s administrative coordinator, and he handles open-records requests.

The information Tobin wants — Shawano County salary data — and his struggles to get it underscore one of  his big battles in Wisconsin — exposing the costs of government employees and bringing transparency to government pension data.

That battle, in turn, is part of Tobin’s war — fight off taxes wherever politicians want to raise them.

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