Thursday, October 27, 2011

The Walker Budget Is Already Working! Part XXX

A business publication took a hard look at the Midwest to see which state is the best place for business.  Who'd of thunk it, but taxes are not the end all be all for attracting and retaining businesses?  Illinois, that's who:
Illinois edges out Wisconsin for the best business climate in the Upper Midwest, according to Crain's Chicago Business.

The weekly Chicago business publication this week analyzed the “factors most important to a healthy business climate,” including taxes, talent pool, transportation infrastructure and money for investment.

Wisconsin ranked second behind Illinois. Indiana ranked third, followed by Iowa and Missouri, which tied for fourth.
Illinois received higher ratings than Wisconsin for customers and capital, infrastructure, and work force. Wisconsin had higher scores in fiscal health and taxes.

The higher work force rating for Illinois is due in part to 30.8 percent of its population holding a bachelor’s degree or higher compared with 26.3 percent for Wisconsin. For transportation infrastructure, Chicago airports offer 192 non-stop destinations to Milwaukee’s 49, Crain’s said.

Wisconsin scored well with the second-lowest corporate tax rate at 7.9 percent behind Missouri’s 6.25 percent. The effective tax rate, which is the overall tax burden on a company opening a new facility, was lowest in Wisconsin at 4.5 percent compared with 4.6 percent for Illinois.

Despite Illinois jacking up its corporate tax rate earlier this year, the state still had a relatively low overall tax burden when all state and local taxes are considered, according to a 2011 Ernst & Young study cited by Crain’s.
Heh. Not only is Illinois stealing our jobs, they're stealing Walker's talking points as well.

Now it's time for us to take our state back so that we can get our jobs and our dignity back as well.

I want to believe in Wisconsin again.

4 comments:

  1. "Illinois edges out Wisconsin for the best business climate in the Upper Midwest"

    Edges huh? So it was close?

    "The weekly Chicago business publication this week analyzed the “factors most important to a healthy business climate,” including taxes, talent pool, transportation infrastructure and money for investment."

    So let me get this straight. an Illinois publication found that Illinois has a better business climate (what are the odds?) based on talent pool (Sheer population difference would account for that) Transportation Infrastructure (Aren't there like 8 lanes on most of the freeways down there?.... compared to what? 4 at the most up here?) and money for investment (Wait... so now you're pointing at the government giving money to businesses as a positive?) and you're touting it as proof that Walkers policies don't work?

    Holy reach much Batman?

    Come on Capper. Walker does enough stupid shit on his own that you really don't need to make connections that don't exist to prove your point.

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  2. Actually, it shows your misplaced values. I was more aware of the poor transportation (attacks on all levels of mass transit from trains to buses) and the brain drain Wisconsin has (people moving to places with jobs and places still open to spend their money at). But perhaps that was too obvious?

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  3. My misplaced values? What values are those?

    Do you have any numbers that support a brain drain since Walker took over?

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  4. As for the brain drain, look at the jobs the state is losing. Every day there's more.

    And it is as was predicted.

    But for the values, your focus was on the money, which is myopic.

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