Trump, Ryan, and Walker Want to Seize Wisconsin Homes to Build a Foxconn Plant

[Natural Citizen]

Apparently President Donald Trump and Gov. Scott Walker hate property rights. Though, they love subsidizing foreign corporations at the taxpayers expense.

Why do conservatives hate freedom? Why do conservatives hate property rights? Where's the money going to come from? We're broke.



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Powerful forces—including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R), the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, and President Donald Trump—have aligned, to turn more than 1,000 acres of Wisconsin farmland and family homes into an LCD screen manufacturing facility.

Reason visited the village of Mt. Pleasant to speak with homeowners facing the threat of eminent domain, and the local government officials responsible for acquiring the land on behalf of Foxconn, which is receiving $4.5 billion in subsidies and tax breaks.

With lawsuits planned, this project may test the strength of Wisconsin's post-Kelo law. Can public officials override the property rights of homeowners in pursuit of big development deals?


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[Pete7469]

This story should be a lot bigger and have people outraged far more than all the other bullshit that has the country's attention right now.


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[Nova78]

yea,ok

 

[Natural Citizen]

Relevant reading: 2016 - Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'

Additionally - The company announced a $4 billion investment in automation earlier this year.

Compounded - The state will pay between $15,000 and $19,000 per job per year in incentives, assuming 13,000 positions are created—well above the standard cost of $2,400 per job per year The standard cost of $2,400 per job per year is according to a report from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.

Previously - Earlier this week Governor Walker proposed spending a huge chunk of federal funding to finish a freeway project that runs near the Foxconn plant, effectively diverting those funds away from projects like restoring and rebuilding bridges and roads in rural parts of the state. - Debate pits I-94 upgrades near Foxconn against road projects elsewhere

Also - Department of Natural Resources has also graciously granted Foxconn the right to siphon off seven million gallons of water per day from Lake Michigan, thanks to a very friendly reading of a proposal as being for public use despite most of the water diversion going to Foxconn’s plant. - Foxconn Will Drain 7 Million Gallons of Water Per Day From Lake Michigan to Make LCD Screens

The tab - A memo compiled by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau and released earlier this year showed projected public costs on the project totaled more than $4.5 billion when accounting for local government incentives, grants, and ancillary work meant to benefit the Foxconn’s plant. - Memo: Foxconn cost to public nearing $4.5 billion

 

[Natural Citizen]

This story should be a lot bigger and have people outraged far more than all the other bullshit that has the country's attention right now.


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Eeeyep. Unfortunately, many, if not most, of our so-called conservative friends will love them for it.

 

[mdk]

This is a gross and outrageous abuse of power by the government. It’s this type of shit that drives otherwise normal people to violence or revolution.

 

[HenryBHough]

Wow, progressives outraged at what their (former) liberal supreme court hatched when they alowed the take-away an old lady's house in New London, Connecticut so the land could be handed over to a private corporation to build a new plant that would pay huge property taxes. But the blowback from an angry public caused the corporation to abandon the plan. The house was demolished; the old lady was destitute, the land sits idle, owned by the city and paying NO taxes. But the progressives slinked quietly into the darkness. Where progressives thrive best. In the dark with snakes and other low-life.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Wow, progressives outraged at what their (former) liberal supreme court hatched when they alowed the take-away an old lady's house in New London, Connecticut so the land could be handed over to a private corporation to build a new plant that would pay huge property taxes. But the blowback from an angry public caused the corporation to abandon the plan. The house was demolished; the old lady was destitute, the land sits idle, owned by the city and paying NO taxes. But the progressives slinked quietly into the darkness. Where progressives thrive best. In the dark with snakes and other low-life.

You beat me to it

 

[Pete7469]

yea,ok
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I don't see how this is a tin foil hat issue.

If a company can use government power to compel people to give up their homestead, it should concern all of us. It's WRONG.

That said, if Foxconn buys up all the land around a few hold outs, who have been offered fair market value plus some and they still refuse I have no problem with Foxconn building a fence around said land to keep trespassers off the surrounding land they own, thus rendering the hold out owner's property worthless.

That's how it should work.

If you're talking about ancestral property with historic buildings you have a separate legal issue, but the bottom line to me is that if you own land, NO ONE should have the authority to force you to leave it. Otherwise you never really owned it. It's a basic human right like owning a gun. They don't even force people off their land in China for God's sake.

 

[Coyote]

Apparently President Donald Trump and Gov. Scott Walker hate property rights. Though, they love subsidizing foreign corporations at the taxpayers expense.

Why do conservatives hate freedom? Why do conservatives hate property rights? Where's the money going to come from? We're broke.



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Powerful forces—including Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R), the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn, and President Donald Trump—have aligned, to turn more than 1,000 acres of Wisconsin farmland and family homes into an LCD screen manufacturing facility.

Reason visited the village of Mt. Pleasant to speak with homeowners facing the threat of eminent domain, and the local government officials responsible for acquiring the land on behalf of Foxconn, which is receiving $4.5 billion in subsidies and tax breaks.

With lawsuits planned, this project may test the strength of Wisconsin's post-Kelo law. Can public officials override the property rights of homeowners in pursuit of big development deals?


Continued - Trump, Ryan, and Walker Want to Seize Wisconsin Homes to Build a Foxconn Plant

That is an abuse of eminent domain

 

[Pete7469]

This story should be a lot bigger and have people outraged far more than all the other bullshit that has the country's attention right now.


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Eeeyep. Unfortunately, many, if not most, of our so-called conservative friends will love them for it.

It's the kind of shit we used to mock the soviets for doing to people. The individual right is supposed to take priority over the will of the state, or the collective as it were.


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[HenryBHough]

Never forget: Where there is property tax there is NO private property. Stop paying your RENT to your landlord, the taxing authority, and find out for yourself. I know of only one state where there remain some "unincorporated" areas where there are no property taxes. Also no schools, police, fire"persons" but also very few people.

 

[Pete7469]

 

[Pete7469]

 

[WheelieAddict]

Rights are negotiable and welfare is preferred for "job creators" with big money.