I remember hearing the governor of WI so proud of "WisconValley" as he dubbed it. And it was all basically an elaborate tax scam by FoxConn which sucked up a bunch of tax money and basically evaporated.
Foxconn didn't get paid cash up front. The tax breaks are on earned income over the next several decades. They didn't earn any income. They didn't get any tax breaks.
Yes, the state of Wisconsin sunk some money into infrastructure in the area, but that just means infrastructure got built in Wisconsin. That's not profit for Foxconn.
>but that just means infrastructure got built in Wisconsin.
Quite a bit of the infrastructure goes nowhere -it only benefits a factory built out at that location. As a Chicago resident who sometimes visits Milwaukee, I will personally note that the interstate construction was horrible and ripped up roads that had been completed just a few years prior.
To say nothing of the people that lost their homes to eminent domain.
