Vinehout says $1.60 tax cut didn’t show in weekly paychecks
"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but…
"If you make the average amount of people in Wisconsin, $50,000, you got $1.60 less a week in taxes" under the state income-tax cut, but…
"Jobs that involve the minimum wage are overwhelmingly jobs for young people starting out in the workforce."
"Scott Walker raises nearly 70 percent of his money from out of state"
Says Gov. Scott Walker dropped out or was kicked out of college short of a degree "not long after" he was "kicked out of student…
"The nine-day deer hunt contributes more than $1.3 billion in revenue to the state of Wisconsin."
In Wisconsin, more than 300,000 people have "some kind of addictive gambling problem, whether it’s pathological or what we’d categorize as a problem gambler."
"You've seen where we're now going from a $700 million surplus to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit."
"The $3.6 billion deficit we inherited has turned into more than a half-billion-dollar surplus."
"During my eight years as county executive, we cut the number of county workers by 20 percent."
With a bill bringing $100 million in property tax relief, "the typical Wisconsin homeowner will save approximately $680 over four years."
"We’re one of the only communities in the country that didn’t lose population in the last census."
"We’re second only to Boston in college students per capita."