Posted on 02/28/2015 6:10:04 PM PST by SendShaqtoIraq
"Minnesota's Governor raised the minimum wage, signed an equal pay act, and raised taxes on the rich to fund K-12 schools and higher education. Minnesota now has the 5th highest job growth in the nation and median income is $8,000 higher than the national average. By contrast, Governor Walker in the neighboring state of Wisconsin did the opposite: he gave the rich $2.1 billion in tax breaks, busted unions, and cut school funding more than any governor. Wisconsin now ranks 37th for job growth, median income is $800 below the national average, and the budget deficit is so large Walker has stopped making payments. Share this for every conservative who says raising taxes on the rich will destroy the economy. Cure them of their ignorance."
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Let me guess who the Democrat is in this scenario....scratching head...hmmm,,..i jusrt don’t know....
There are twice as many Asian immigrants than African immigrants.
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This is a typical huffpo communism works, free markets don’t post. I just ack the leftists to move to cuba, venezuela or n. korea to find their utopia.
How much is illegal immigration costing this country?
The character assassination and the lying begins now.
There are so many variables unmentioned it’s hardly necessary to point them out.
What are the main businesses and industries in the two states? What were their relative growth rates, etc. before these two governors took office? Etc.
Liberals love post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc arguments in economics. It’s so much better than arguing actual cause-and-effect.
Slowest private employer growth of ANY of the midwest states.
I would agree. BNSF has expanded greatly both in Minnesota and Wisconsin in working on the railways. Excel has also added quite a bit of jobs for building the Cap2020 project.
One other aspect of Wisconsin and Minnesota, More people live in Wisconsin and work in Minnesota. The two exceptions would be around Prairie Du Chein and La Crosse, otherwise at all other border crossings Minnesota cities have the jobs.
Wisconsin does have a larger population than Minnesota and it has North Chicago (Milwaulkee) so those things make the two states not an apples to apples comparison.
Dayton’s plan may be working right now, but history has shown that higher taxes on the rich and businesses causes a flight of businesses, business owners and the rich. California is a good example of the road Minnesota is on.
The faggot homosexual communists in media need to be dealt with Putin style.
If its on HuffingGluebytheTonCOMMIEPost .. is true. jaaa.
Mostly what we’ve got representing the low taxes position though is ALEC, and ALEC is an Amnesty loving deficit producing disaster.
Correction: Detaining as many illegal immigrants as possible at $122 per person and per day, paid for by taxpayers to crony capitalists, so NOT amnesty loving (but still deficit producing disasters).
State wide elections are decided by the cities, duluth and to some extent mankato and rochester.
MN is much like NY. If outstate was not out numbered we’d be a red state.
I don’t believe it. All that tax money went into lining the pockets of politicians.
and helps to have a oil rich state to the west MN and tax reforming governor to the east .
And based on California, they vote Democrat nearly as high a percentage as blacks. It’s a difficult trend for our side.
All of this article’s highlite/fact check source/credibility links are circular nonsense.
Yeah. I know. Same when we lived in WA state. Seattle, Tacoma and Everett was all puking liberal to the core, and the rest of the state is over powered by their numbers. The Cascade Mountains actually divide the state into two states. The Western part of the state is liberals, and over into the Eastern part of the state is more conservative. When we lived up there people in the East wanted their own voice. Some spoke of voting to become a state on their own. So, if I remember right, the liberals in the State Legislature quickly passed a bill to prohibit a vote on breaking away and forming their own state. Those three cities I mentioned above are the vast majority of the voting block of the state. Spokane is not large enough to out vote any of those three cities. So, the stinking commies and homos run the state.
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