This link is provided to show the truth about Texas and how it ranks compared to other states, in terms of job growth (effect of recession).

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/20...

Need money for training, education, job growth?
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Turn off the spigot leaking our tax money into the Wisconsin baby farm program, and perpetual welfare.
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Stop funding poverty

Democrats raising taxes? Must have been a slow news day!

To create jobs, lets make it more expensive to live and be in business here. "Open the gates boys, their gonna come running now." lol

I'm curious as to just how many people in Wisconsin make $1M or more each year. To raise the $145M that is mentioned, 14,500 people would have to be taxed 1% on their 1M earnings. true, some people make more than that but do we really believe that there are somewhere between 10,000 and 14,500 in this state earning $1,000,000 annualy (not millionaires, not net worth of a million but making $1M or more in a year)?

Give this program six months and when it falls far short of what is being spent then suddenly it won't be about taxing those making $1M it will be about taxing the rich or the "winners in lifes lottery" with a new arbitrary number set by some idiot grazing at the public trough.

This type of economics has never worked. If you look at the states with the lowest unemployment levels and highest growth, they all have one thing in common, low taxes.

Tax the rich more - tax the rich more - it's just same old mantra...all that's missing is the shaven head and tambourine.

Minan, Alaska is also a big oil producer but it was dead last on that list. Texas has many other huge sectors, such as livestock and agriculture. Over 50 of the Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas. At least consider how taxing consumption (sales) instead of productivity & assests (income & property) would have the effect of attracting enterprise and wealth instead of driving it away, not to mention removing the burden of taxes from exports. Texas is #1 in exports, too. Another coincidence?

Why don't we set up posts at the border, and when the Illinois I-Pass goes past it, charge their accounts for road improvements. Then we can allocate the money for training.

Minan - What does that tell you? Maybe our Country would survive better if they pulled their heads out and started tapping.

Maybe they based their opinion of Wisconsin's workforce on Gazettextra's blogs, Raystone.

(I don't believe or disbelieve the survey. It's just more information.)

When is the State of Wisconsin going to spent it money wisely? If the taxpayer can live within their budget, then the State can too.

fool_on_the_hill; if you believe that study, then you believe that WI ranks #44 for quality and availability of their workers. I don't believe it.

State rankings for business, economy, cost of living, capital, etc:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31392646/

Contrary to popular opinion, Wisconsin isn't the worst place to do business. Overall, we're about in the middle. Texas is #2.

LOL

janesvillian - you've posted some old news from March.
Here's the latest....Aug 28th, 2009- Texas bucking recession as largest state to hold steady
http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/s...

How about a tax increase on just the Assembly Democrats? Let's start with a 10% increase on their income.

Report: Texas hit hard by recession
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/t...
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Just to put paid to that myth.

If the person is a S-Corp for tax purposes the tax IS on their business. So that means they would go to 8% in Wisconsin when the Illinois tax is less than 4%? Most business owners on the State line may see this as more than a little incentive to move a few miles south.

The proposal is just taking the easy way out since they are not willing to take the road to fiscal responsibilty.

tax and spend that,s what change is all about... wake up and vote these clowns out. no to big gov,t take back our country before its to late..

I have just three words. Id Dee Otic. Yes, I know that was lame, but so is this idea. When will the government realize that they can't produce more by taking more?

Increase taxes to CREATE jobs. That is simply too idiotic to even debate.

As for taxes on Texans, their state has suffered least from the global economic recession. Hmmm... I wonder if there might be some connection?

Texas has no income tax, and started the recession with a 9 billion dollar rainy day fund. It's not the lack of money, it's the lack of management, leadership, and new ideas Wisconsin needs.

This would work in theory, however...you create the government program, at some point you decide it's not being properly funded, then eventually the taxes filter down and pretty soon the middle class is paying for it. I just explained pretty much every government program that said the rich was going to pay for it.

tax increase to create jobs?????????? how often do we hear that from the left. i promise, eventually the tax money brought in will go to something else.

wow, just wow

But how many people in Wisconsin are actually making more than a million dollars a year?

Bad idea unless it is only for individuals, because this could hurt many small businesses that make just above this figure. They are on a tight line.