Rick Snyder in Unintimidated, by Scott Walker

On Corporations: Closed $1.5B budget deficit while eliminating business tax

Just look at what some of our nation's Republican reformers have accomplished at the state level. In New Mexico, Susana Martinez became the first Latina governor in US history, and turned a $450 million budget deficit into a $200 million surplus. In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder closed a $1.5 billion deficit while lowering personal income taxes and eliminating the state's job-killing business tax. In Idaho, Governor Butch Otter passed legislation in 2011 that restricts collective bargaining for Idaho schools, institutes merit pay, and eliminates teacher tenure. And there are countless other examples.