Walker Tax Breaks For Businesses, 'Job Creators' Fall Flat

Wisconsin led the nation in job losses last month, the AP reports, so in light of this #1 ranking, where Bucky beat out even the big states, like New York, we ask:

Where are the jobs that Scott Walker's business and upper-income earner tax breaks were supposed to create? Or how about stemming the losses?

Little wonder that the Department of Revenue has said Walker cannot meet his promised goal of 250,000 new jobs in four years.

And what spin will the administration put on the data, because Walker and his people will never say their policies are failing.

Look for blame to be case everywhere else, from Greece to Obama to Doyle.

And remember that some of Walker tax breaks even preceded the adoption of his budget, where round #2 then took place, but when it came to aiding laid-off workers there was no sense of urgency.

Walker did keep his campaign promises to lower taxes on businesses, but the premise of the promise was that the job creators would take their state-inspired windfalls and reinvest them into new plants, purchasing and expansion that would create jobs.

The new numbers, ill-timed and no doubt embarrassing for a governor facing recall, unmask the fallacy of giving money away through tax policy to create employment.

So Walker should reap what he sowed through political payoffs made on schedule to corporate leaders and upper-income donors:

Pain at the ballot box directly tied to failed policies and falling payrolls.