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Scott Walker, the governor, who signed the deal lost his office a year after it was signed in part due to backlash over the deal. Think about it from Foxconn's
by sct202 5y ago
Scott Walker, the governor, who signed the deal lost his office a year after it was signed in part due to backlash over the deal.
Think about it from Foxconn's perspective, if you got a sweetheart deal and the person who gave it to you got canned for it, are you going to follow thru and put in billions of your dollars on the assumption that you'll still get billions of government subsidies in return?
- analog31 5y agoI wonder if it might have been water. They may have needed more than a sweetheart deal with the state. I think a big reason for the location was the water supply via Lake Michigan. They got a waiver of state environmental laws as part of the deal, but they still had to contend with federal laws, and a treaty with Canada that governs water use in the Great Lakes watershed. There was quite a controversy over the environmental impact of this plant. The "word on the street" is that LCD manufacturing is a dirty industry requiring a lot of water.