The Express (Milwaukee): The Explosive Numbers on Walkers Taxes
media mentionWalker has successfully built a political career on tax-cut politics that many voters believe benefits them when, in reality, the middle class and the poor pay a higher tax rate in Wisconsin than the wealthiest 1%.
That’s a real fact everyone should know. It’s documented in a new national study just released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization.
In fact, ITEP’s report on state and local taxes by income levels in all 50 states completely blows out of the water the dishonest right-wing economic rhetoric of today’s Republican Party.