The article makes it sound like it wasn't free for tax payers and there were a bunch of subsidies and infrastructure costs that were tax funded.
"Foxconn could hire people in the final weeks of the year, get tens of millions in subsidies, and be free to lay them off once the filing deadline passed"
"State and local governments spent at least $400 million, largely on land and infrastructure Foxconn will likely never need."
"Foxconn could hire people in the final weeks of the year, get tens of millions in subsidies, and be free to lay them off once the filing deadline passed"
"State and local governments spent at least $400 million, largely on land and infrastructure Foxconn will likely never need."