Attention Wisconsin! Tax Cuts to Corporations Don't Produce Jobs; the Comparison between Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington
courtesy of quote of the day, dictionary.com

Ohio is attempting to enact the same kinds of union busting legislation as Wisconsin.

As Wisconsin intends to do, if Governor Walker gets his way, Ohio has already done away with corporate income taxes, and has lower taxes in other categories, like property taxes and sales tax, than the national average.  This presents the question, are the tax cuts really about job creation, or are they just continuing and expanding the income gap between the wealthiest 1%, and the other 99%, with a side-order of union busting to further increase that gap between the very few haves, and the increasingly have-nots and have-less?

Yet their unemployment is HIGHER than the national average, and has been in spite of all the give-aways and the freebies for corporations in Ohio. Low Corporate Taxes are a factor in business relocation, but not the only - or even the most important - factor in job creation. If this was a mechanism for producing jobs, Ohio wouldn't have these comparative statistics:

                                Unemployment Rates         

                                             Dec. '10 
Ohio                                          9.5%

Ohio not seasonally adjusted        9.2%

U.S.                                           9.4%

U.S. not seasonally adjusted         9.1%

While Wisconsin had an unemployment rate of 7.5%, and Minnesota 7.0% respectively for the same time period.

A New Era of Dirty Tricks by the Right Wing - Nixon Era Redux?

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis,
Over the Hedge,
05-09-04

According to the American Bar Association, in their Law Journal in an article

Law Firms
E-Mails Suggest Law Firm Considered ‘Dirty-Tricks’ Plan to Discredit Chamber Critics
Posted Feb 15, 2011 7:40 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The Hunton & Williams law and lobbying firm considered proposals from three data security contractors to undermine opponents of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to e-mail released by hackers angered by the CEO of one of the security firms. 

The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have stories on the e-mails, first revealed last week by the liberal blog ThinkProgress. According to the Post, the e-mails reveal plans for a “dirty-tricks-style campaign” against Chamber critics. The security firms, which called themselves “Team Themis,” hoped to win a $2 million Chamber contract with their proposals.

Hunton & Williams declined to comment when contacted by the Washington Post. According to ThinkProgress, the law firm earned $1.1 million from the Chamber in 2009.