Posted on 05/07/2015 4:34:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Since becoming governor of Wisconsin in 2011, Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walker has signed into law 15 tax bills that have reduced taxes by nearly $2 billion.
“Every action of our administration should be looked at through the lens of job creation,” Walker told lawmakers in early 2011. In that year, despite a looming fiscal deficit, he persuaded the Republican-controlled Legislature to enact a variety of tax incentives for employers. Those included a tax credit for business relocations to Wisconsin, a credit for manufacturing and agriculture, capital gains tax relief for new investment in Wisconsin, a deduction for new hires, and a relaxation of combined reporting rules.
Although they were numerous and multifaceted, those business tax cuts were not particularly large, as shown in Figure 1. The bulk of Walker’s tax relief would come with individual rate cuts enacted in 2013 and his property tax cuts in 2014.
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I’m still firmly for Cruz first, but am contemplating a small donation to Walker’s campaign “just because”. We need one or the other to be standing at the end of the campaigns.
I’ve donated to both. My only two donation so far.
grandstanding---
showboating---
self-aggrandizement---
basking in the adulation.
Worth repeating...
He seems to have the stability which comes from knowing and having proven your principles.
I hope he remains calm and humble. I believe that he will wind up being the nominee.
I’m not sure where he is on the homosexual invasion. Did he say that he would NOT attend a pretend marriage between same-gender people? I’m waiting for someone to take this position. It’s the most honest.
Walker is overplaying his Kohl’s and inexpensive clothes schtick. It is getting old. It will be very easy for SNL to ridicule.
Going all the way to the bottom of the article, the last line says:
"...the net job creation of 138,000 in Wisconsin since Walker took office is below his own goal of 250,000 new jobs and the percentage increase in jobs of 4.9 percent is below the national average of 7.9 percent."
Don't be repeating that during the primary.
Oh please, if he wore a $300 Polo sweater, SNL would satirize him.
...or making threats...
So his wardrobe is “playing”? What do you “play” when you put on your drawers?
But the report failed to give sufficient context to Wisconsin’s job growth. The BLS, along with other reports touting similar results, ranked states based on how much private employment increased over a year.
Why might Wisconsin’s employment increase seem modest? One reason could be that more Wisconsinites than people in many other states already had jobs, which they did. Another wrinkle comes from factors like the energy boom in the upper plains states. In states like Wisconsin not so blessed with shale, job growth can seem comparatively slow.
Let’s look at Wisconsin’s employment growth since Mr. Walker took office. Since February 2011, Wisconsin’s employable population has grown by about 100,000 people, but the number of people employed increased by about 135,000. That means employment outpaced population growth significantly.
But how does it compare with national employment growth? One important measure is the percentage of the employable population that is actually employed, what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls the employment-population ratio. The U.S. employment-population ratio has grown 1.5% since Mr. Walker took charge.
Yet Wisconsin’s employment-population ratio has jumped 2.5%—significantly more than the national improvement rate. Wisconsin is also gaining ground against other states. In February 2011 Wisconsin ranked 12th in employment-population ratio. It now ranks ninth."
July 3, 2014: The real reason Wisconsin growth lags? It's not Gov. Scott Walker
The bulk of that work was done by his Republican legislature that he never mentions or credits. How much of that do you think would have been done with a Democrat legislature? I’ve heard him toot his own horn plenty in interviews, saying things like, “I wouldn’t bet against me.”
The number of times he used the word “I” made me think of an Obama speech.
How fast did Wisconsin recover from the 2008 melt down, prior to Walker's election, affects how many jobs were created since Walker was elected. The nation's central regions always recover faster than the coasts.
Or who benefitted most from the taxcuts, business or consumers, and more importantly, whether the tax cut beneficiary spent the tax cut or used it as savings.
The issue is not just about Walker, but also Christie in NJ and Brownback in KS.
I wonder how many Wisconsinites fled to Minnesota , Texas, or North Dakota.
Bottom line is that more and more people are questioning supply side economics. Or, if there is a fiscal policy that works anywhere/everywhere anytime/everytime. In which case Walker is merely a symbol.
The Republican primary is quickly becoming akin to American Idol. I fear this because it is how the RINO’s operate. Dilute the field and leave the only guy who can raise money, their guy, alone. In this case, I have my candidate but am going to do whatever it takes to promote two finalists first, Cruz and Walker and then go from there. No more divide and conquer.
I know we assume this, being conservatives,
but that has to be PRIVATE SECTOR job creation.
The left likes to tout “job creation” as well,
but their idea of job creation is make-work or no-work gov’t jobs
that there really isn’t any consumer demand for,
and that don’t provide service to “fellow man”.
Obama's overall behavior (and his visceral hatred of Republicans) hasn't helped anybody.
Walker aimed high and didn't hit all of his benchmarks, but he has moved the state measurably forward.
Shoot for the moon---if you hit a star, that's not so bad.
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