In 2013 and 2014 Wisconsin enacted several tax cuts, focused primarily on the stateâs income and property taxes. Prior to those cuts, the Badger State had income tax rates and property tax rates well above the national averages, with the stateâs effective property tax rates ranking 4th in the country.
Tubman: Conductor of the Underground Railroad. Tubman made 19 trips to Maryland and helped 300 people to freedom. During these dangerous journeys she helped rescue members of her own family, including her 70-year-old parents. At one point, rewards for Tubman's capture totaled $40,000. Yet, she was never captured and never failed to deliver her passengers to safety.
In the 1850âs there was one woman who risked her life not once but many times to rescue hundreds of slaves and help them escape to freedom. This woman was Harriet Tubman. Tubman was the most famous leader of the Underground Railroad. Tubman was born a slave in 1820 on the Brodas plantation. Her and name was Araminta Ross, but as a child she was always known by her motherâs name, Harriet. These were hard times, so by the age of five she was hired out as a laborer. Harriet did not care to work indoors and was routinely beaten by her masters.