Walker, in Barre Mills, talked of his saving taxpayers money

The Rep. governor was at the Servais farm

The tax deadline is a day of celebration for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

No bad news came from the Republican governor, who toured the state Monday, including a stop at a La Crosse County dairy farm, to highlight how much money people have saved in taxes since he took office.

Walker, speaking at the Servais family farm in Barre Mills, argued that taxes would be a lot higher now, if Democrats were still in charge.

“If you look at where that median value property was headed, under the previous cycle where it was going up, if that trend had continued over those five years, compared to where we’re at today, tax payers on a median value property would be paying $1,227 more today than they’re currently paying, on average,” Walker said. 

The governor also proclaimed how 13,000 new jobs were created in Wisconsin last month.

Walker continued talking about how three million state residents are working now, the highest number in state history – Wisconsin’s population has also risen by over 5 percent every decade but one since 1850.

Walker continued touting how his policies have brought significant tax relief around the state.

“Income taxes, a typical family, a median family of four in this state, over the past four years, have seen a reduction of $916 over a four-year cycle. That’s a lot of money,” Walker said of the average $229 a year over those four years.

Walker added that income and property taxes in Wisconsin are likely to drop even more in the next two years.  

And, on the day Republican Dan Kapanke announced he’d be running against Jennifer Schilling in November for the state Senate, Walker even spun Kapanke’s losing a recall election to Schilling into good news for Walker.

Kapanke was targeted for recall because he supported Walker’s Act 10, and the governor says voters should have waited to see whether his policies would work.

“I think if people had time before that election to see the results, they might have voted differently,” Walker said. “If you look at results five years later, we actually see $5 billion worth of relief for local and state taxpayers. 

“You see for all the talk about what it was going to do to public education in this state. The schools are better in this state as a whole.”