OPINION: Other voices - Don’t hold Foxconn tax credits hostage

RACINE, Wis. — If a company comes into your state, and says it will create 13,000 jobs making screws then turns around and says it will make bolts instead, who cares?

What does matter is that those jobs are created. It is for that that the company should be held accountable...

...Again, if Foxconn falls through on its promises, it shouldn’t get tax credits. But the state government shouldn’t give them reasons to leave Wisconsin. That is not good for anyone and will hurt the entire state in the long run.

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Ken Notes: I have been on this soapbox for a while now. It is imperative that we keep Foxconn on the hook for whatever they eventually plan to build in the State. We can not let them leave without building some brick and mortar with a taxable value to repay the infrastructure investments we have already made.