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Federal taxpayers will fund billions more than actual cost of Illinois battery plant to be owned by Chinese company with alleged CCP ties
WirePoints ^ | 9/13/2023 | Marc Glennon

Posted on 09/13/2023 6:50:02 AM PDT by COSIllinois

State of Illinois tax incentives exceeding half a billion dollars are a comparatively small part of taxpayer money that will go to Gotion, Inc. for an electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in Illinois.

Through federal tax credits alone, which so far are going mostly unreported, Gotion will be paid billions more than its construction costs.

In other words, taxpayers will be paying many times over the cost of a new factory they will not own.

It will be owned, instead, by Gotion, and Gotion is widely reported to have close connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Here are the details:

(Excerpt) Read more at wirepoints.org ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: china
You Can't Make this stuff up!!
1 posted on 09/13/2023 6:50:02 AM PDT by COSIllinois
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To: COSIllinois

The big guy’s commission has to be underwritten.


2 posted on 09/13/2023 6:54:52 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: COSIllinois

Not so ‘alleged’...


3 posted on 09/13/2023 6:56:35 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: COSIllinois

10% to the big guy.


4 posted on 09/13/2023 6:56:48 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

And Boy is he BIG!!

Ever see J.B. Pritzker?

And HIS BROTHER JENNIFER??


5 posted on 09/13/2023 7:00:03 AM PDT by COSIllinois
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To: COSIllinois

The Chinese make the best spontaneous combustible batteries you can buy


6 posted on 09/13/2023 7:14:32 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: COSIllinois

Globalism going as planed


7 posted on 09/13/2023 7:14:42 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Vaduz

“Globalism going as planed”

Are these the ‘planes’ that hit the towers ?
planed


8 posted on 09/13/2023 7:18:30 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: COSIllinois

10% plus all the other gets for the swamp critters.


9 posted on 09/13/2023 8:01:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: George from New England

In a way the trust factor was to lax lessons learned.

Lax security comes with major costs.


10 posted on 09/13/2023 8:01:41 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: COSIllinois

It will be owned, instead, by Gotion, and Gotion is widely reported to have close connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).


By definition, doesn’t any Chinese company have close connections to the Chinese Communist Party?

I know that communism in China has changed in recent years, with free market reforms having taken place. But even so, can anyone in China own any business, which does not have ties to the communist party?


11 posted on 09/13/2023 8:07:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Ask Wirepoints


12 posted on 09/13/2023 1:41:33 PM PDT by COSIllinois
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