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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:08 AM Aug 2015

Most 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 he’ll 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 state’s taxes by more than $2 billion.

Just as predictably, Walker is likely to be asked more than a few questions about the state where he’ll 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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Most families in Wisconsin, it turns out, would save on taxes by moving to Minnesota (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2015 OP
Worthwhile to note that Walker has NOT reduced government spending in Wisconsin. His latest ... Scuba Aug 2015 #1
Watch for a big outward Wellstone ruled Aug 2015 #2
If my wife gets a job in Minnesota Goblinmonger Aug 2015 #3
 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
1. Worthwhile to note that Walker has NOT reduced government spending in Wisconsin. His latest ...
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:45 AM
Aug 2015

... budget is the largest in state history.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Watch for a big outward
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:54 AM
Aug 2015

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)
3. If my wife gets a job in Minnesota
Tue Aug 18, 2015, 04:32 PM
Aug 2015

we're out of here. It is solely economics (i.e. we both need to have jobs) holding us back at this point.

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