The Real Green Economic and Tax Plan
I wasn't able to watch the debate between Governor Doyle and Representative Green on Friday so my comments are based upon things that I have read elsewhere.
From what I've read and to put it simply, U.S. Rep Green is concerned about expanding the manufacturing base and wants to freeze or cut taxes. Governor Doyle wants to expand the high tech jobs and make strategic decisions about where a limited amount of tax money needs to go.
Green's ideas seem deeply rooted to the economies of the past. As we are repeatedly reminded, we live in a global economy. Low tech manufacturing jobs are going or have already gone to other countries never to return. To encourage the return of these manufacturing jobs with corporate welfare (Bribing) keeps these companies in Wisconsin only as long as the next time another state offers an even more enticing package of corpowelfare benefits. This cycle does not build a sustainable healthy economy. It also does not expand the tax base or continue the services Wisconsinites have come to expect. Stubbornly clinging to these notions would be disastrous for Wisconsin.
Governor Doyle has the right idea concerning growing Wisconsin's economy. As is always the case, education is the answer to the problem. A highly educated workforce attracts higher end companies which increase the wages of workers far beyond those working in the manufacturing sector. These highly paid workers also contribute more in taxes than line workers thus there is more money available for tax provided services.
Although the some editorials and blogs blew off Governor Doyle's Wisconsin Covenant proposal earlier this week, his eye is on the goal of creating a highly educated workforce that will allow Wisconsin to thrive. To guarantee that every 8th grade student who maintains a B average, is a good citizen and takes the right preparatory classes while in high school admission to a Wisconsin college is exactly the commitment the state needs to make to the future.
Representative Green's tax freeze promise is much more draconian than the ill fated TABOR bills of the do nothing Wisconsin legislature. Any covenant that adults may feel toward providing for the future of Wisconsin students would be destroyed by its devastating effect upon the public education system.
I suppose that Green's plan would provide the low wage, uneducated workforce companies have been looking for in other countries. Perhaps that is the the Republican idea in the first place. Imagine running for office on that. God help our children and grand children should they succeed!
From what I've read and to put it simply, U.S. Rep Green is concerned about expanding the manufacturing base and wants to freeze or cut taxes. Governor Doyle wants to expand the high tech jobs and make strategic decisions about where a limited amount of tax money needs to go.
Green's ideas seem deeply rooted to the economies of the past. As we are repeatedly reminded, we live in a global economy. Low tech manufacturing jobs are going or have already gone to other countries never to return. To encourage the return of these manufacturing jobs with corporate welfare (Bribing) keeps these companies in Wisconsin only as long as the next time another state offers an even more enticing package of corpowelfare benefits. This cycle does not build a sustainable healthy economy. It also does not expand the tax base or continue the services Wisconsinites have come to expect. Stubbornly clinging to these notions would be disastrous for Wisconsin.
Governor Doyle has the right idea concerning growing Wisconsin's economy. As is always the case, education is the answer to the problem. A highly educated workforce attracts higher end companies which increase the wages of workers far beyond those working in the manufacturing sector. These highly paid workers also contribute more in taxes than line workers thus there is more money available for tax provided services.
Although the some editorials and blogs blew off Governor Doyle's Wisconsin Covenant proposal earlier this week, his eye is on the goal of creating a highly educated workforce that will allow Wisconsin to thrive. To guarantee that every 8th grade student who maintains a B average, is a good citizen and takes the right preparatory classes while in high school admission to a Wisconsin college is exactly the commitment the state needs to make to the future.
Representative Green's tax freeze promise is much more draconian than the ill fated TABOR bills of the do nothing Wisconsin legislature. Any covenant that adults may feel toward providing for the future of Wisconsin students would be destroyed by its devastating effect upon the public education system.
I suppose that Green's plan would provide the low wage, uneducated workforce companies have been looking for in other countries. Perhaps that is the the Republican idea in the first place. Imagine running for office on that. God help our children and grand children should they succeed!
Labels: corporate welfare, Doyle, education, Green, Wisconsin Covenant
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