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I hope after the utter trainwreck that is Foxconn in Wisconsin every local government is being more skeptical of these corporate welfare deals.

I'm really tired of seeing fancy corporate lawyers outfox local politicians over and over again, somehow always getting a new record-breaking welfare incentive plan while structuring the contracts such that they have a hundred loopholes and never have to actually do anything for the money. This keeps happening at small and large scales all over the country, and it needs to stop.



At least an Amazon HQ is believable.

Foxcon's Wisconsin plans, tv panel manufacturing, then turned into a spread out series of research centers never seemed believable.

The Wisconsin Republicans stopped bragging about the details the last election....but still tried to make it more difficult for the state to get out of after the election...




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