Under Mary Burke’s leadership, Commerce Department business-incentive programs had "major shortcomings" and "40 percent of jobs...didn’t materialize."
"Wisconsin wages are declining at double the rate of other states."
"Once our Blueprint for Prosperity is signed into law, we will have delivered $2 billion" in tax relief.
"(Mary) Burke was a senior member of the Doyle administration that left Wisconsin with 130,000 fewer jobs."
"Federal government reneging" on Medicaid payments to Wisconsin caused about $240 million in extra costs in the 2013-’15 state budget.
"A majority of drunk driving deaths and injuries are caused by drunk driving offenders with no prior convictions."
As state Commerce secretary, Mary Burke drafted, sponsored and promoted "budgets that raised taxes by billions, created high structural deficits and raided funds to finance…
Wisconsin is "not a high tax and fee state." When you look at "all the money state and local governments bring in" from residents, "we're…
"We’re trailing every other state in the Midwest in terms of job creation since January of 2011."
"The national economic recovery has led to higher than expected tax revenues and projected budget surpluses in nearly every state in the nation, including Wisconsin."
"With the tax controls we already put in place, property taxes on a typical home in December of 2014 will actually be lower than they…
Action by the Milwaukee County Board will "provide the County Executive with the same level of security as the Governor and the Mayor of Milwaukee…