Given that Foxconn operates in a highly automated industry, cash Foxconn receives for its anticipated capital expenditures, concentrated in the first four years of this proposal, may not only produce a budget shortfall but may be used to automate Wisconsin workers out of any potential jobs.

Local communities will be on the hook for millions in infrastructure development and emergency services to support this project without any guaranteed additional support from the state. Local environmental issues created by Foxconn being permitted by the proposed legislation to pollute state wetlands and waterways will leave Wisconsinites with the cleanup tab. And if Foxconn doesn’t live up to its promises of jobs and capital investments? The state has little authority to recoup lost taxpayer money. Just yesterday we learned from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau that taxpayers will not break even on this deal until 2043 — a quarter of a century after the project is slated to begin.