The MacIver Institute shows where Wisconsin ranks in the Midwest in income taxes …
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… and in per-capita property taxes:
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Second to Minnesota in income taxes, and second to Illinois in property taxes.
Notice that Wisconsin’s lowest income tax rate is higher than the rate in Indiana and Michigan. Notice that if you make minimum wage for a 40-hour week ($15,080), you will pay more in Wisconsin income taxes than you would pay if you lived in Iowa.
Among other reasons, that’s how you get to the fifth highest state and local taxes, higher than every other state in the Midwest.
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