WMC swallowing its own tail, complaining about it
After decades of trying to spin outsourcing as good and natural in a capitalist economy, and after perpetually labeling Wisconsin a ‘Tax Hell,’ Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) is now complaining’and seems somewhat surprised’that our state government is employing more workers than manufacturers.Read the GOP talking points memo, er news release, here.
Of course WMC wants to do everything it can’t to make this fact 1) a bad thing, and 2) the fault of the current legislature. They fault the current Democratically-controlled legislature for, among other things, closing the Las Vegas Loophole and increasing taxes on Wisconsin’s top income earners as the cause for the ‘dangerous trend.’ And not, mind you, the decades of conservative laissez-faire economic policies started by Reagan in 80s that continued throughout the 90s with the U.S. Congress and former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, and that defined Bush’s administration in the 00s. No, instead WMC faults corporate accountability measures taken within the last year as the catalyst of the trend.