Another tax-funded Walker giveaway fails in Wisconsin

The shot, from late 2018.

#ThrowbackThursday Kimberly-Clark to receive $28 million in taxpayer funds under new deal from Scott Walker https://t.co/Xyok21Xdf1 #wiright #wiunion #wipolitics

— Wisconsin Strong (@WisconsinStrong) April 15, 2021

And the chaser, from yesterday.

.@KCCorp is moving 250 sales, marketing and executive jobs out of Wisconsin two years after @ScottWalker gave the company a deal worth up to $28 million to keep a Wisconsin plant open. https://t.co/jlLdWSUwua

— Patrick Marley (@patrickdmarley) April 14, 2021

Scotty's just the gift that keeps on giving, isn't he?

Speaking of taxpayer-funded schemes from Walker, Foxconn is back under discussion at the Capitol. This time with a new bill that allows more time for the local yokels that fell for this scam to try to get something out of this white elephant, which could lessen the chances that the state would be stuck with having to bail them out.

Under current law, a city or village creating a tax incremental district (TID) in an electronics and information technology manufacturing zone may incur project costs for certain specified items, including capital expenditures for constructing or expanding fire stations and for purchasing police and fire equipment. Such capital expenditures may be made only for the first 84 months following the TID's creation. This bill increases that period to 180 months.

This is basically admitting that it will be a long time for there to be enough activity to allow for a Foxconn TID to start paying back these capital expenditures.

These are the direct effects of having a crooked college Dropout for a Governor who has never worked a real job in his life, and only cares about economic strategy as a means of generating short-term headlines that might boost his political fortunes.

It's also the mark of someone who thought that the main job of government is to direct money and power to help himself and his cronies/donors, without any regard for what happens to anyone else in the state. Or any regard for what happens after he is run out of town and we have to clean up the shoddy deals and ongoing costs that he has left behind.