This is embarrassing for Wisconsin

H/T: Charlie Sykes

Things We Thought We’d Never See at the Tax Foundation, But Thanks to the Wisconsin Senate ….

• state legislative body has voted to double its tax collections in one year.

The Wisconsin Senate passed a budget plan to increase taxes $15.2 billion in fiscal year 2009. That would more than double Wisconsin's tax collections of $13.8 billion in fiscal year 2006, according to the latest available data from the Census Bureau.

• A state legislative body has voted to raise taxes by almost the same amount as the state's taxpayers send to the federal government in income tax payments.

The $15.2 billion tax increase is only slightly less than the $15.8 billion Wisconsin taxpayers sent to the IRS for income taxes in 2005. And that's just the increase!

• A state legislative body has voted a tax increase equivalent to 50 percent of general fund revenue. See Table 1.

able 1: Top Ten Tax Increases at the State Level, Compared to Wisconsin Senate Budget (Percentage of State General Fund Revenue), 2000 - 2009
Rank	State	Tax Increase as a Percentage of State General Fund Revenue	Year
N/A	Wisconsin*	50%	2009
1	Nevada	14.05%	2004
2	New Hampshire	13.54%	2000
3	Tennessee	11.75%	2003
4	Nevada	10.43%	2005
5	Indiana	10.08%	2003
6	Idaho	8.87%	2004
7	New Hampshire	7.52%	2001
8	Oregon	7.5%	2004
9	New York	6.2%	2004
10	Ohio	6.09%	2004
* Proposed. The ten ranked tax increases were signed into law. Wisconsin's tax increase has passed the Senate but still must be considered by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Doyle.

Oh there is more. See the rest here.