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Regardless of where you stand on the Foxconn deal, their stated goal of full automation is not unique to the world we are now living in. It is time for the Legislature to take the issue of automation seriously and do what needs to be done to protect the best interests of taxpayers, our families and our workforce.
At this point, Foxconn is Wisconsin’s opportunity to lose. Foxconn decided to come to Wisconsin because of our people, our existing economic climate and the bill’s provisions — not because of these other parochial and special interest issues.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Each of us has a stake in having strong and prosperous communities. Therefore, investing in the economic stability of our state
No governor in state history would have offered such a massive giveaway.
Lobbying law does not require those who seek a contract or a grant with the state to register as a lobbying group unless or until they attempt to influence the development or drafting of legislation to enable the contract to be implemented. So the question is when did the development and drafting of the Foxconn deal legislation start?
None of us — farmers or anyone else — is above the law. That should include the Department of Natural Resources.
Her radical reshaping of state DNR may make her the perfect candidate.
Gov. Scott Walker’s deal for 13,000 jobs may have the Dems feeling “Foxconned,” but the 2018 governor’s race in Wisconsin still has a ways to go.
We should absolutely pursue this in a reasoned and professional way, but we should not simply turn over the keys to our treasury to a foreign company with a slippery record.
When governments fund what should be private projects with special tax breaks and subsidies, taxpayers bear the cost. Money that will now go to Foxconn could have instead financed a tax cut for all Wisconsinites whose effective income tax rates are the third-highest in the nation or gone toward a public good such as public safety.
We believe that the interests of Wisconsinites are being sacrificed to the re-election interests of Gov. Walker and the financial interests of a multinational corporation.
Preparation for war is essential regarding North Korea, but there is still no need to assume war will happen. This remains true despite the latest extreme statements from Pyongyang, and now the White House. The Korean War armistice has held for 64 years.
In today’s economy, we need our cooperatives more than ever. Let’s build on what makes our cooperatives unique, rather than diluting the cooperative difference.
Jacque’s bill to prevent the UW Medical School from training resident physicians in abortions could likely cause a shortage of OB-GYN doctors in the state.
Walker bet on health care exchanges and against expanding Medicaid, which could hurt Wisconsin.
Second offense possession still a felony in Wisconsin.
The promise of sustainable new jobs is dubious based on more than the track record of both Walker and Foxconn.
Wisconsin taxpayers would subsidize each Foxconn job $230,000 to $1 million. These jobs would pay a third of what a family of four needs to live in the middle class.
In his frenzied courtship of Foxconn, Gov. Walker is prepared to surrender your water and air to the multinational corporation.
If Foxconn’s development site can be exempted from environmental rules that are supposed to ensure the clean water that is the people’s constitutionally-guaranteed right, then why not draw the same kind of privileged lines around the rapidly-expanding Wisconsin industrial-scale big animal feeding factories known as CAFOs?
Regardless of where you stand on the Foxconn deal, their stated goal of full automation is not unique to the world we are now living in. It is time for the Legislature to take the issue of automation seriously and do what needs to be done to protect the best interests of taxpayers, our families and our workforce.
At this point, Foxconn is Wisconsin’s opportunity to lose. Foxconn decided to come to Wisconsin because of our people, our existing economic climate and the bill’s provisions — not because of these other parochial and special interest issues.
The column below reflects the views of the author, and these opinions are neither endorsed nor supported by WisOpinion.com. Each of us has a stake in having strong and prosperous communities. Therefore, investing in the economic stability of our state
No governor in state history would have offered such a massive giveaway.
Lobbying law does not require those who seek a contract or a grant with the state to register as a lobbying group unless or until they attempt to influence the development or drafting of legislation to enable the contract to be implemented. So the question is when did the development and drafting of the Foxconn deal legislation start?
None of us — farmers or anyone else — is above the law. That should include the Department of Natural Resources.
Her radical reshaping of state DNR may make her the perfect candidate.
Gov. Scott Walker’s deal for 13,000 jobs may have the Dems feeling “Foxconned,” but the 2018 governor’s race in Wisconsin still has a ways to go.
We should absolutely pursue this in a reasoned and professional way, but we should not simply turn over the keys to our treasury to a foreign company with a slippery record.
When governments fund what should be private projects with special tax breaks and subsidies, taxpayers bear the cost. Money that will now go to Foxconn could have instead financed a tax cut for all Wisconsinites whose effective income tax rates are the third-highest in the nation or gone toward a public good such as public safety.
We believe that the interests of Wisconsinites are being sacrificed to the re-election interests of Gov. Walker and the financial interests of a multinational corporation.
Preparation for war is essential regarding North Korea, but there is still no need to assume war will happen. This remains true despite the latest extreme statements from Pyongyang, and now the White House. The Korean War armistice has held for 64 years.
In today’s economy, we need our cooperatives more than ever. Let’s build on what makes our cooperatives unique, rather than diluting the cooperative difference.
Jacque’s bill to prevent the UW Medical School from training resident physicians in abortions could likely cause a shortage of OB-GYN doctors in the state.
Walker bet on health care exchanges and against expanding Medicaid, which could hurt Wisconsin.
Second offense possession still a felony in Wisconsin.
The promise of sustainable new jobs is dubious based on more than the track record of both Walker and Foxconn.
Wisconsin taxpayers would subsidize each Foxconn job $230,000 to $1 million. These jobs would pay a third of what a family of four needs to live in the middle class.
In his frenzied courtship of Foxconn, Gov. Walker is prepared to surrender your water and air to the multinational corporation.
If Foxconn’s development site can be exempted from environmental rules that are supposed to ensure the clean water that is the people’s constitutionally-guaranteed right, then why not draw the same kind of privileged lines around the rapidly-expanding Wisconsin industrial-scale big animal feeding factories known as CAFOs?
