Thanks, Gov. Walker, for moving good Wisconsin rail car manufacturing jobs to a state that is really open for business.
Illinois also will welcome wind turbine business, should Walker severely restrict turbine siting in Wisconsin. So Wisconsin is open for business - - to be moved to Illinois.
You know who else recently decided to build a new train factory in Illinois?
ReplyDeleteNippon Shayro, the Japanese railcar manufacturer that in the past has used Milwaukee's Super Steel as an assembly sub-contractor (cars for Metra, the South Shore, and Virginia Railway Express). Now they won't have to anymore, since they'll have their own production facility in Rochelle, Illinois.
I hear a giant sucking sound...
ReplyDeleteScott Walker's economic disaster continues: American Aluminum Extrusions Co. intends to open a plant in Roscoe, IL that will create 130 jobs by 2013. This is a Beloit-based company that decided to locate just over the border in Illinois.
ReplyDeleteThe company will be creating those jobs in a facility that was once a toxic waste site but, low and behold, is now cleaned up thanks to the federal Superfund program. Government doesn't work, eh?
The hemorrhage of businesses and jobs from Wisconsin will only accelerate as the right wing implements its extremist social, business, environmental, and educational agenda in the coming months.
BTW, despite the recent increase, Illinois taxes are still lower than Wisconsin's. Neither states' tax climate is much of factor in locating business; rather business clusters around markets near customers and suppliers.
ReplyDeleteWhat will chase business, especially professional jobs requiring highly educated people from Wisconsin is the weird anti science, anti urban and anti immigrant policies that Walker and his coven are about to impose. Read conservative economist Ed Gleaser's new book, Triumph of the City. He identifies densely populated cities with complex economies as essential for wealth creation. He contrasts freeway intense and impoverished Detroit with much wealthier transit oriented cities like Chicago. Walker's anti Milwaukee and anti intellectual agenda will turn Wisconsin in the direction of decline like Michigan.