To close in on jobs' promise, Walker would give Foxconn anything

Basically, Foxconn would want the moon, the stars and everyone's first born, but remember that right-wing GOP Gov. and master of business stagnation Scott Walker is more than two years and 65,000 jobs short of his signature job-creating promise, so do you think he would hobble into the 2018 election having also failed to give Foxconn every imaginable incentive to bail him out of his stupendous jobs fail?

And as far as potentially transferring Wisconsin assets to Foxconn, Walker was given the right by the Legislature to sell any state asset, and cooperating localities could move land, water, power, infrastructure and other assets to the state to nail down this once-in-a-lifetime Blue Light Special.

But other states have even more generous tax waivers, givebacks, credits and other hard-dollar incentives than does Wisconsin, so Walker, despite all the personal, political and partisan incentives on his plate may, in the end, be outbid by other states which didn't have so many progressive vestiges ham-stringing this version of Walker's 'chamber of commerce mentality,' private-sector servicing small no-government dream.

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