Wisconsin offered a $3 billion dollar subsidy to Foxconn and were promised a $10 billion factory and 13,000 jobs in exchange. Instead, the locals got three empty buildings, a few hundred jobs, and a mountain of debt. Sorry, Wisconsin. As Ronny Chieng from the Daily Show put it, “You got catfished.”
Read MoreLocal government must run a profit. Once we accept what that means and why it’s important, we’ll never look at infrastructure spending the same way again.
Read MoreRun your city with business principles, just don’t run it with business values.
Read MoreThis proposal is political theater at best, and, at worst, it's treating jobs as an object of religious veneration.
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