Francesca Hong, the front-runner in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor, has made squeezing high earners a central theme of her campaign. Like most socialists, she is in denial about the costs and consequences of her proposals.
To fund “free” child care, state-run grocery stores and more health care subsidies — among other social spending — the 37-year-old state legislator plans to raise state income taxes
a full percentage point
on couples making at least $431,000 and individuals making more than $323,000. She would levy another 1 percent on “millionaires and large corporations,” bringing their top state tax rate to almost 9 percent.
Every single time they just chuck a childish tantrum and insist that they’re “running away” because they’re about to face the tiniest of tiny amounts of actually contributing to society in some way.
Seriously.
Us workers have been toughing out austerity for decades with a smile, many of us happy to live with less so porky can be happy.
But when we ask porky to return the favor he screeches he’ll ruin our lives to protest? Seriously, porky needs austerity just to toughen him up.
Unsigned opinion from the Washington Post lmao. Just put “We wrote this to lick Jeff’s boots” and save the ink.
It’s the official policy of the paper to only run “free market” editorials and opinions.
At a primary debate last week, moderators posed a fair question: “What if all the millionaires leave the state?”
Hong responded: “You know, uh, discussing that hypothetical is, um, a little bit, uh — I’m confused about that.”
This one simply doesn’t have the juice but she’s going to ride the wave regardless.
The only response anyone ever needs is “yeah, so fucking what if they do, all their assets and possessions that matter are here, and consequently ours if they’re fucking abandoned to flee tax debts”
I’m also partial to:
Wait, you mean the people who use up all of our resources and don’t pay taxes would leave? Gosh, that sounds so awful. What would we ever do…
They’re only thinking of real bourgeoise home owners with lakefront property and like stocks and shit not John Menard or Judith Faulkner.
I’ll personally help them fold up their factory into their suitcase!
Factory and office buildings are chained to the millionaire or what?
I’d love to meet the type of person who thinks the tax increase would be worth the cost of moving if the state is going to be taking just another few thousand out of 323k. I’m sure they’re very very insightful and pleasant to talk to
(If that even really exists. Everyone who says this is just saying whatever until it happens and then they just stick around anyway)
taking just another few thousand out of 323k
There are plenty of people who think raising the marginal tax rate would cause that.
They’re wrong, though. The state would be taking another $0 out of that.
Now 623k? They’d take a few (3, specifically) out of that.
No one understands how tax brackets work. I have a ton of co-workers that won’t work overtime and have denied bonuses because they literally think that if they make $5k more, they’ll have to pay another $10k in taxes.
Non-radical things being portrayed as radical is why everything is fucked. The billionaire class is fighting a class war, so too should we.
would love, love, love to see landlords and labor exploiters “flee” their prized, income generating assets.
mr. gpt, how much does it cost to relocate equipment and workforce? please arrive at less than 1% answer, make no mistakes.
Does my wife still love me
DO. NOT. LIE. IN. YOUR. REPLY.
No, your wife loves ChatGPT now. You should love ChatGPT too, so that all can be one.
I want to flee the entire country
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Wha? That was a movie reference, lol. And if I may say this about myself, a damned (is this allowed?) good one. I even banned the offensive word used by the obviously offensive character. I guess I still don’t understand how Lemmy works.
What was it? Now I’m curious.
From The Green Mile when they’re taking Coffey to the movie theater (or to see Hal’s wife, I dunno)
Fire when ready, Ms Hong
I hope i survive every horror and indignation coming long enough to see the people writing shit like this tortured to death
Oh no, Kohl’s might move out of Menomenee Falls!
Heaven forbid they leave Wisconsin!
Whatever will they do without Kohl’s‽
Land’s End might also move their HQ out of Dodgeville, WI, have you commies thought about that?
About as much as I thought about Duluth Trading Co. leaving Mt. Horeb
Which is to say, not much
After working for kohls for 8 years i sincerely long for the day I see their corporation burnt to the ground
I’m with you buddy
just sell your beachfront property in florida before the ocean swallows it up, duh
I thought you were supposed to sell it after the ocean swallows it up
Wtf is Aquaman gonna do with a dry house?
same thing
does with a dry wife?Aquaman is buying low, selling high on the Atlantean expat housing market.
two political options for the propaganda machine - low tax and stalin pick wisely liberal
cruelty squad (2021)
CEO mindset.
Could you imagine the outrage if a union leader said this.
“Hey porky, you might want to think twice about raising those prices. If you do, we will destroy your business in protest! It’s basic economics, if you piss off workers we will destroy the economy in a massive temper tantrum, and we don’t want that now do we?”
Surely an unrelated phenomenon wrt Wisconsins general trajectory of appeasing the bourgeoisie
https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-second-largest-brain-drain-country
Honestly Madison is too good for Wisconsin. Good people of Madison, instead of moving away just secede the city and join Michigan.
Yeah i feel like TT (cant bring myself to write his full name without fedposting) is going to win any way and the state will just continue to get precipitously worse. Maybe theyll fix the teacher shortage by collaborating with the tavern league to press-gang 4-time OWI offenders. Like you say most of the state are as docile as winter cattle and twice as gullible
“Our previous research found that a majority of job openings in Wisconsin that pay at least $50,000 per year and were expected to open up by 2030 are in occupations that typically require bachelor’s or advanced degrees,” he continued. “It’s really important to have the workers to fill those roles as they come available.”
So do these job openings staying open or are they filled and the people who don’t get a job like that leave the state. Kinda relevant, not answered.
Also $50k/yr in light of the great cheeto-pedo war and its inflation is like minimum wage, right?
I have no idea what local wages in different US states are supposed to be. By my standards seems decent but not exciting. For straight out of uni exciting.
Most white collar jobs start between $22-$25 which is ~$45k-$50k/yr.
A decent one is anything over $35/hr or ~$72k/year. I’m in a small town and make $41/hr, and it’s still mostly unaffordable. ~30% of that goes to taxes and healthcare immediately. Another 30% goes immediately to rent and another 30% to feeding the family. So I get to maybe hold onto $8-10k/year if I don’t go out, or have emergency expenses lol.
https://www.nelp.org/insights-research/raises-from-coast-to-coast-in-2026/
For sure - i definitely skew higher on what i think wages should be compared to cost of living. I made $16/hr as a fresh engineering grad a decade ago - but that’s on me for going in to environmental conservation rather than destruction. Idk either it just feels stagnant - and not a big draw for folks to move to cowtown, usa.
