It’s been two years since Republican legislators (and a few Dems) bestowed their blessing on former Gov. Scott Walker’s Foxconn deal. Since then, nothing has gone right, and no one should be surprised.
The deal was hastily crafted, the goals unattainable and the environmental safeguards weak or non-existent. To close the deal, the state resorted to a questionable exercise of its powers of eminent domain and saddled taxpayers with a bill of up to $3.5 billion. Without a doubt, Foxconn was the worst public deal since Teapot Dome…