As has been well documented by this blog, a few years ago the cheeseheads up in Wisconsin – led by this guy – cut a deal with Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn to open an enormous manufacturing facility in Racine County where the company would make flat-panel display screens for various consumer electronics products. The Scott Walker administration agreed to give Foxconn billions of dollars in subsidies if it upheld its end of the deal and actually opened a plant and created thousands of jobs.
