Scott Walker: Creating 250,000 New Jobs

Scott Walker has a plan to help the people of Wisconsin -- creating 250,000 new jobs and 10,000 new businesses by 2015.

Scott Walker's six-step plan to help Wisconsin businesses create 250,000 new jobs and 10,000 new businesses by 2015:

1. Lower Taxes "I want to lower the tax on employers, lower the tax on income, freeze property taxes and phase out retirement income taxes. States that have a lower tax burden have more jobs and better budgets, and its time Wisconsin was a better state to do business."

2. Less Regulations "State agencies should be more responsive to the customer and standards must be science-based and predictable."

3. End Frivolous Lawsuits "Luckily, we stopped the Governor?s changes in joint and several liability, but we need to do more to block frivolous lawsuits, and we need true tort reform to help lower health care costs."

4. Better Education "We need a strong education system with more accountability and more tools to prepare our future workforce. And it means giving our UW System the tools to operate more like a business to pursue economic development."

5. Improve Healthcare "We need help for employers to be able to afford the costs of providing health care without government taking total control. That means eliminating the state tax on Health Savings Accounts. It means full disclosure on medical procedures. And it means helping employers tap into larger purchasing pools to share the risk. Most importantly, it means finding new ways for everyone to get some skin in the game so we work on improving our health which will ultimately lead to lower costs."

6. Strong Infrastructure "Reliable energy sources and dependable transportation links are the final piece to our plan."

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Tom Barrett has a goal:

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Tuesday said the state should create 180,000 jobs over three years - fewer jobs than called for by one of his opponents in the governor's race but a total Barrett envisions achieving at a faster rate.

...That contrasts with a plan by Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker, a Republican, to create 250,000 jobs by 2015.

To meet Walker's goal, the state would have to create 4,167 jobs a month over five years. Barrett's proposal would mean creating 5,000 a jobs a month over three years.

Barrett didn't spell out how he would create those jobs, but called Walker's jobs figure arbitrary.

"I don't know that I would call it a plan. It's certainly a political document and it's a campaign document," Barrett said of his goal. "I don't think it makes sense to pull a number out of the air."

So Barrett offers NO specifics on how he would create jobs and he calls Walker's numbers arbitrary.

And Barrett's 180,000 figure comes from where?

Scott Walker released a response, "Scott Walker Statement on Barrett’s Reliance on Government to Create Jobs":

Scott Walker, Milwaukee County executive and candidate for governor, today released the following statement after Mayor Tom Barrett said his plan for job growth in Wisconsin relies on accepting the $800 million Washington handout for high-speed rail. 


“It’s extremely disappointing that Mayor Barrett’s jobs plan is to take an $800 million Washington handout for a train that will only create 55 jobs at a rate of $14.5 million per job,” said Walker. “This is yet another example of wasting our taxpayer money and looking to government to create jobs. Unlike Governor Doyle and Mayor Barrett, I believe the people and employers of Wisconsin WILL create 250,000 jobs when we fundamentally change the way government does business by lowering the tax burden and easing regulations on everyone.”

In addition, Mayor Barrett said that Walker’s 6 point plan to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin used “arbitrary,” and was “made up” numbers, but also said a more “reasonable” goal would be creating 180,000 new jobs –jobs that rely on Washington money. 

Walker’s 6 point plan is below. Note - during Governor Thompsons first term he brought 258,000 new jobs to Wisconsin. (See page 3 http://www.legis.state.wi.us/LRB/bb/99bb/ch8f.pdf)