Added together Ryan and Trump poll over 50%.
My reaction to the header was, “which golf course is he going there to play?”
A perverted “Have Gun, Will Travel.”
“The White House confirms the president will pay a visit to Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan’s home state on Tuesday.”
Resist, Wisconsin, resist!!!
Ahhhh… to be back in the bosom of the NRA, amongst a roomful of strangers with “concealed carry” permits, all armed to the teeth, and all of them passionate about what you promised. An NRA convention, packed with 100%, 2nd amendment, American borne handgun enthusiasm.
That’s the only way to feel safe. Right, Don?
When do we get a visit to a state that did not vote for him? Perhaps only when they let him get there by driving that big truck.
Awww… Somebody needs an ego-boost 
Joe Atkins, County Commissioner
When Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker got sworn in back in 2011 he immediately started bashing Minnesota. He suggested people compare the two states. So I did. Starting in 2011 and every year since, I have compared Wisconsin with Minnesota, using only documented figures and rankings, with no spin. Below is this year’s data.
Since I am now a Dakota County Commissioner, I have tossed in some data specific to Dakota County, too.
TAXES. For 2017, an average family with a median annual income of $54,286 would pay $7,384 in state and local taxes in Wisconsin. The same family would pay $6,291 - or $1,091 less - in Minnesota for state and local taxes. Source: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416/.
PROPERTY TAXES. Minnesota residents pay $2,110 in property taxes on a $180,000 home. Wisconsin residents pay $3,499 on the same-priced home. Source: https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416/. The average household in Dakota County pays $1414 less in property taxes than a family in Wisconsin, and $461 less in property taxes than the Twin Cities metro average.
WAGES. A worker in Wisconsin earns an average annual wage of $43,930. A worker in Minnesota earns an average of 13.2% more, at $49,740. Source: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm. Dakota County residents earn an average annual wage of $51,532.
JOB GROWTH. Wisconsin businesses added 28,900 jobs in 2016. Private-sector jobs grew 42% faster in Minnesota, with businesses adding 41,200 jobs in 2016. Source: https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/323f046b-3e87-477f-9f96-0d0ac8f1e90f/jec-state-economic-snapshots-january-2017.pdf
BEST STATE FOR BUSINESS. Minnesota ranks as the 4th best state for business. Wisconsin ranks 23rd. Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/12/americas-top-states-for-business-2016-the-list-and-ranking.html
FORTUNE 500 COMPANIES. Minnesota is home to 17 Fortune 500 companies. Wisconsin has 10. Minnesota is also home to the world’s largest privately-owned company: Cargill. Source: http://beta.fortune.com/fortune500/list/. Dakota County is home to one Fortune 500 company’s headquarters - CHS in Inver Grove Heights - which is #84 on the list with $34.6 billion in annual revenues.
STATE BUDGET. Wisconsin’s state government has a $1.7 billion budget deficit. Minnesota’s state government has a $1.65 billion surplus.
DEBT. The State of Minnesota’s debt equals $2,982 per resident, while the State of Wisconsin’s debt equals $3,933 per resident. Source: https://ballotpedia.org/State_debt. Dakota County has zero debt, which is unusual in Minnesota and across the country.
BEER CONSUMPTION. Wisconsinites annually consume 38.2 gallons of beer per person, placing them at #6 in the nation. Minnesotans consume 22% less, at 31.3 gallons of beer per person, which doesn’t even crack the top 10. Source: http://www.beerinfo.com/index.php/pages/beerstateconsumption.html
MURDERS. There were 165 murders in Wisconsin in 2016. Minnesota had 88. Source: http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/murder-capital-of-the-us-states-with-the-most-murders.html
FARM PRODUCTION. With $20.2 billion in farm production, Minnesota ranks #5 nationally. Wisconsin farmers come in at #9, with $12.5 billion in production. Source: https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=49642. Dakota County farmers held their own among Minnesota’s yield-leading counties in bushels per acre of oats, corn and soybeans. https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Minnesota/Publications/County_Estimates/
QUALITY OF LIFE. Wisconsin ranks 15th. Minnesota is 2nd. We were narrowly edged out by Hawaii for the top spot. Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/12/americas-top-states-for-business-2016-the-list-and-ranking.html
MILK & CHEESE. Wisconsin farmers make 2.8 million pounds of cheese annually, earning them the #1 ranking in the nation, while Minnesota ranks #6 with 661,000 of cheese produced. Wisconsin was second only to California in milk production, with Minnesota ranking #9. Source: http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/us-cheese-production-top-10-states.html. https://www.statista.com/statistics/194968/top-10-us-states-by-milk-production/. Notably, MN Milk recently named the Otte Family of Dakota County its 2016 Milk Producer of the Year. http://www.mnmilk.org/news/320727/Minnesota-Milk-Names-Otte-Family-its-Producer-of-the-Year.htm
AARON RODGERS. The Green Bay Packers have one. The Minnesota Vikings don’t.
EDUCATION. Wisconsin ranks # 11; Minnesota is #2. In states where at least half of all students take the ACT, Minnesota ranks #1. Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/12/americas-top-states-for-business-2016-the-list-and-ranking.html. In Dakota County, seven high schools were named to Minnesota’s 50 Best High Schools list: Simley, Rosemount, Eagan, South St. Paul, Sibley, Eastview and Apple Valley. Source: goo.gl/qxgw2D — with Julie Olson.
Only takes one lone wolf in that crowd to bring us to the very heights of irony.
Yet, with regard to the Tax Day Marches, he told us that the election was over.
And mine was “I guess the golf courses have thawed.”
If he holds a rally in Madison, that could count as a foreign trip.
eddie could really do smarmy.
Trump probably thinks he’s going to be visiting the “Strap-on” Tool Company.
Whomever dresses Ryan in the morning needs to be told that Ryan’s puke green ties are too suggestive of the response we all have to Ryan as a Speaker.
That’s interesting. I grew up in Kenosha and had an aunt that worked at Snap-on her entire adult life until arthritis forced her into retirement. I seem to remember them pretty much offshoring all manufacturing (certainly they `closed plants in Kenosha and Illinois in 2003), though I gather some of their tools are still made somewhere in the USA.
For context, when I was growing up in the '70s and '80s, American Motors was far and away the city’s biggest employer, followed by Snap-on and Jockey and a couple more manufacturing concerns. American Motors was bought out by Chrysler and stripped for parts straight away – they built the lucrative SUV craze on AMC’s Jeep brand and left only a modest engine plant, which closed a few years back. Snap-on and Jockey (whose CEO is a Koch network megadonor) both offshored manufacturing, keeping only small headquarters staffs locally.
It makes sense that Trump would visit Kenosha – it’s definitely one of the counties that put him over in Wisconsin, and an epitome of the put-upon white working class narrative he built his campaign around. But he’s visiting a Potemkin manufacturer in a city whose manufacturing base was hollowed out under Reagan and Bush the Elder. Of course this is nothing but a stupid fucking photo op, but if he wanted to connect with the white working class, he’d visit the local Walmart supercenter, which is now one of the town’s major employers, after big government and healthcare.
One of the reasons I visit TPM is for posts like this, to put things into perspective, Thanks !
I’m sure the Snap-On folks will be regaled with tales of Trump’s great election victory.