Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke, the nominee for governor in Wisconsin, released a new ad Thursday using Ronald Reagan to attack Gov. Scott Walker on taxes.
In the ad Burke highlights how Reagan expanded the earned income tax credit, “cutting taxes for working families.” She then contrasts that with Walker, who reduced Wisconsin’s Earned Income Tax Credit. Walker and Wisconsin Republican lawmakers sliced the tax credit by $41.3 million over two years, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
“He did just the opposite, cutting taxes for the wealthiest and raising them on 140,000 Wisconsin families. Raising taxes income taxes on working families isn’t just bad economics, it’s wrong,” Burke said.
From a distance the attack is somewhat counterintuitive for a Democrat to tout Ronald Reagan. The Wisconsin gubernatorial race has also included the state Republican Party attacking Burke as a “one-percenter” in the same way that Democrats attacked Mitt Romney in 2012.
Watch Burke’s ad below:
Ronald Reagan was no Ronald Reagan at least not the one of Republican mythology.
Yep. The real Ronald Reagan, not the one of myth, signed tax increases 7 out of 8 years.
In todays GOP Ronald Reagan would be a liberal. LOL.
Good Lord, Scott Walker isn’t even Forrest Gump, let alone Reagan.
Thanks TPM for highlighting a smart democratic move!