Sen. Risser: Senate passes $3 billion Foxconn boondoggle, taxpayers foot the bill
Contact: Senator Fred Risser 608-266-1627 Largest state taxpayer giveaway to a foreign corporation in U.S. history State Senator Fred Risser (D-Madison) said that today’s passage by the Senate of the Foxconn legislation is a breathtaking sweetheart deal that sells out state environmental laws, give Foxconn special treatment in our courts, and puts state taxpayers on the hook for $3 billion over decades while our schools, our roads and other vital needs of our citizens continue to go unmet. “The idea of guaranteeing cash payments of hundreds of millions of dollars each year of public funds to a foreign corporation at