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.
Although Harriet Tubman found her freedom, she was separated from her family. Between 1850 and 1860, Tubman returned to the Eastern shore of Maryland 13 times and freed 70 people, who were her family and friends so they can all be free together as a family.