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posted by martyb on Saturday August 19 2017, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the Politics dept.

The lawmakers in Wisconsin voted in favor of an incentives package worth up to $3B for Foxconn. The total value of the package depends on the number of jobs that Foxconn creates in the state, so, effectively, the state is paying about $500,000 for each new job.

Most of the incentive is in the form of cash payments from the state to Foxconn, not just tax waivers. The cost to the residents of the state is about $1,200 per household.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @12:38PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @12:38PM (#556660)

    All welfare is stealing from Peter to pay Paul.

    Lo! Oft Soylentils will spout the most vulgar verbiage, but none so ignorant and misguided as this! Forsooth, my dear fellows, some times it is Robin stealing from the Duke of Nottingham. Which is something that just had to be done. He was a 1% er, after all.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @05:31PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @05:31PM (#556726)

    No. The Duke of Nottingham was the government.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @05:45PM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @05:45PM (#556729)

      Your next task is to draw the Venn diagrams for government and the elite under different systems such as Monarchy, Plutocracy, and Social Democracy.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @08:22PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 20 2017, @08:22PM (#556775)

        Your task is draw the Venn diagrams for who gets to elect the government under different systems such as Monarch, Plutocracy, and Democracy.

        Oh? Under democracy it is the people and not the elites who elect the government? I guess the government in this case is responsible for betraying the people who get to elect it, unlike under other non-democratic forms of government.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @02:57AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @02:57AM (#556851)

          So, how do you propose we put a stop to the government betraying the people who get to elect it?