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The contract for software used in the police department's new real-time operations center gives the corporation wide control over any data collected via police surveillance systems, according to privacy advocates.
Factory. $4 billion in subsidies. >> but to that point, does that not look like corporate welfare that hurts the wisconsin taxpayer and hooks up a company or investors? >> i hate to say it this way, but we've seen nothing but corporate welfare over the last several years now, particularly with the tax bill, where half of the s&p profits that have been reported this year have been directly result of lower tax rates. as i said earlier, the share of corporate taxes as a percentage of government rev fenues has fallen to an historic low. yes, it's just a continuation of what has been brought to us....
Stephanie, we do not have a shortage of jobs in the united states irrespective of what the white house has been saying. we have 6.7 million open positions. we have a massive skills gap that keeps the open positions from being filled. so while it's always nice to see jobs being created in the state, particularly a state like wisconsin, which probably needs the diversification of other industries, it is, number one, expensive, but two, flies in the face of reality we're searching for jobs and not searching for workers. >> people are skeptical about this deal. if you remember, they made a promise...
I'm thrilled to be here in the badgers state with the hard-working men and women of fox conn working with you. moments ago we broke ground on a plant that will provide jobs for much more than 13,000 wisconsin workers. >> okey-dokey. that was president trump yesterday at the groundbreaking ceremony for fox conn manufacturi manufacturing's newest plant opening in wisconsin. those 13,000 jobs he mentioned might actually cost the state more than it's worth. for starter, wisconsin is actually paying fox conn for jobs, as much as $3 billion bucks in tax incentives in order to bring the company to th...
The national average, okay. so it really doesn't make a lot of sense. so you think about it. there's really one fly in the own mnt intment -- >> they have 2.8% -- >> they do. apple i-phone, it says assembled in china, you know, so 45% of foxconn sales come from apple. this is apple, i'm sure, putting pressure on foxconn saying we're not going to build factories in america. we have the most profitable electronics business that has ever hit this planet, okay so you're going to do this cheap little stunt. you're going to put a factory in wisconsin. we're going to have our situation in china where...