The real irony of Scott Walker's messy personal finances

The presidential candidate is (kind of) just like us. So why is he so hell-bent on gutting ordinary workers?

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The finances of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker got a rather stern once-over from National Journal on Monday.

"Walker has two credit-card debts of more than $10,000 apiece on separate cards and is paying an eye-popping 27.24 percent interest rate on one of them," the Journal harrumphed, before quickly lasering in on the irony. "The Republican presidential candidate has cast himself as both a fiscal conservative leader and a penny-pinching everyman on the campaign trail, often touting his love of Kohl's, the discount department store."

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.