Wisconsin
Related: About this forumMost families in Wisconsin, it turns out, would save on taxes by moving to Minnesota
On Tuesday, Scott Walker will bring his presidential campaign to Minnesota, where hell give a speech on the Affordable Care Act and attend a fundraiser. At those events, Walker will no doubt boast about his conservative record as governor of Wisconsin: an ambitious if sometimes polarizing set of public policies that have reduced government spending, curtailed collective bargaining rights and as he is sure to remind people reduced the states taxes by more than $2 billion.
Just as predictably, Walker is likely to be asked more than a few questions about the state where hell be holding forth, a place where his counterpart, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton, has pursued the sort of agenda that might cause Walker to break out in hives: expanding union membership, increasing school funding and most notably implementing a tax hike on the wealthiest Minnesotans.
Comparing the two states under the two men over the last few years has become something of a national sport, after all, a favorite pastime among journalists, academics and politicians alike. Even President Barack Obama has gotten in on the act. Before an audience in La Crosse last month, he paraphrased the local paper by saying that Minnesota was winning this border battle when it came to the states respective economic fortunes.
And yet, despite all the ink spilled about both Walker and Dayton and their records, almost all of the assessments overlook a longstanding but seldom-discussed fact about life on either side of the St. Croix River: that a majority Minnesotans actually pay a smaller share of their household income toward taxes than Wisconsinites.
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Scuba
(53,475 posts)... budget is the largest in state history.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)migration when the new Tax assessments hit. Just spoke with a old Sconny neighbor,ouch,this is going to hurt,twenty per cent increase for his taxing district do to loss of State funding. Go Walker,yah right.
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)we're out of here. It is solely economics (i.e. we both need to have jobs) holding us back at this point.