Originally Posted by mgburg

HD just got slammed with some half-assed, retro-style tax ($24,000,000) that our Demo-heavy Assembly and Senate passed and "Diamond Jim" Doyle gleefully signed.

Willy G. (Who I met and personally had the pleasure of being amazed at his attentivness to minute details...story later...) and company are letting the people of Wisconsin know that $24M is the straw that's breaking the camels' back...it has nothing to do with the Union workers in Milwaukee. It's the f***ing taxes and the fact that the State feels it has the right to keep coming after those that really work for a living...and not living off the state itself. Those loans? Someone in the State Legilature must have figured that if HD is getting loans, they somehow have a right to tax that company more...'cause they have the cash available and if you're a Wisconsin-based company with the nice infrastructure in place, you're not just going to pull up tent-stakes and leave now...eh?

Someone mentioned Mercury Marine...they too, used to be a Wisconsin product...but they pulled their manufacturing processes out of Fond du Lac (fond' due lack) because of Union issues and taxes by the State. And where are they now? In some state that appriciates having tax-paying citizens gainfully employed and not asking the State to hold their hand and tuck 'em in at night.

Wisconsin knows the story of the Golden Goose...they just don't believe it.