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Job Killing Facts
The current economic recession has negatively touched the lives of everyone. Thousands have lost their jobs. Businesses are in the red. At a time when families are cutting back, Governor Doyle and the Democrat-controlled legislature have continued their wasteful spending. To make up for these extreme unneccessary costs, they raised taxes $4.7 billion and raided other government funds instead of doing what responsible families do: cut back.
In the last four years, wasteful spending and increased taxes have driven out more than 170,000 jobs and has labeled Wisconsin an unfriendly state for jobs. Businesses find it hard to stay so they eliminate jobs, and they find it hard to come to Wisconsin, stifling job creation.
- The Tax Foundation ranks Wisconsin as 42nd highest in State Business Climate- making it the 9th worst state for jobs.
- Chief Executive Magazine ranks Wisconsin 42nd “Best States for Business,” making it the 9th worst.
Wasteful spending and taxes that kill jobs are causing good paying Wisconsin jobs to leave for states that encourage growth.
- GM closed its Janesville plant in December 2008, eliminating 1,200 jobs but locating 1,500 jobs to Michigan. Later, when considering where to add 2,400 new jobs, GM chose to locate those jobs in Kansas, Michigan and Indiana but left the Janesville plant closed. Now, Janesville families are being told to follow their jobs to Ohio, where a new assembly line has been opened.
- Briggs & Stratton Corporation announced July 2009 that it will close its Wisconsin plants, moving 530 jobs to Georgia and Alabama.
- JohnsonDiversey Inc., announced the closing of its facility in Sturtevant because it was moving jobs to Wyandotte, Michigan.
- Fiskars, best known for scissors and gardening tools, announced May 13 it was closing two facilities in Wisconsin and moving 115 jobs to Mississippi.
- Unfortunately, there are many more examples like these.
We need to make Wisconsin a place where businesses want to create jobs. Republicans have a plan that will create jobs by cutting government spending and taxes, and creating incentives for jobs to come here.
Join in the struggle and pass the message along that Wisconsin cannot endure another Democrat job killing spree.
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Harley-Davidson
Since establishment in 1903, Harley-Davidson has been central to the economic success of Wisconsin. The company has provided thousands of high-paying manufacturing jobs, and demonstrated to other businesses the benefits of doing business in Wisconsin.
But Harley-Davidson’s consideration to leave Wisconsin validates the state's terrible business climate and over- taxation to pay for wasteful government spending. In 2009 the new taxes Governor Doyle and the Democrat- controlled legislature passed punished Harley-Davidson $22.5 million. Additional taxes in a recession cripple businesses, even icons like Harley-Davidson.
In April 2010 Harley-Davidson announced it needs to cut $54 million in costs in Wisconsin, or it will relocate jobs to to other states.
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In Recent News: Polaris
The city of Osceola in northern Wisconsin, Polk County is a town of 2,400 people. Over one fifth of those people are employed by Polaris, a leader in the snowmobile industry. Polaris announced May 17, 2010 it is leaving Wisconsin and moving jobs to Minnesota, Iowa and Mexico.
Polaris is a global company with factories and businesses throughout the nation and is subject to the same tax that punished Harley-Davidson.
These businesses cannot afford to pay such extreme taxes and are leaving Wisconsin to states that encourage job growth. Now, because of the over spending and over taxing practices of Governor Doyle and the Senate Democrats, 515 full time Polaris jobs will be lost, 515 people will not be able to feed their children, and a community of 2,400 will feel the painful affects of an integral company leaving for more job-friendly midwestern states.
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