Poll: Almost Two Thirds Say Foxconn Not Worth It Or Not Sure

A newly released poll shows that only 38 percent of southeast Wisconsin residents think Foxconn will be worth what state taxpayers put up for it. The Marquette Law School surveyed 12-hundred adults in five Milwaukee area counties earlier this month. Forty-eight percent said the state’s package of tax breaks, environmental law relaxations, and shortcuts for legal appeals are not worth the prospect of 13-thousand jobs for the Taiwanese high tech screen maker. Fifty-four percent did say the ten-billion-dollar plant at Mount Pleasant would substantially make the region’s economy better. On other issues, the Marquette poll found that 25 percent of southeast Wisconsin residents thought the downtown Milwaukee streetcar was worth it, and 53 percent favored a regional sales tax to prop up the city’s cultural attractions. But just 41 percent favored a sales tax for better highways in Metro Milwaukee.