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.
Undeterred, she found other slaves seeking freedom and escorted them to the North. Over the course of 10 years, and at great personal risk, Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad, a secret network of safe houses where runaway slaves could stay on their journey north to freedom.