Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon joins IL Freedom Caucus Reps Miller, Wilhour & Halbrook to talk about the latest developments in the Gotion controversy. Gotion Inc., a company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party, is set to receive $8 billion in taxpayer subsidies to build a $2 billion battery factory in Manteno, Illinois.
On September 8, Governor JB Pritzker announced a deal with Gotion Inc., a Chinese company, for the construction of an electric vehicle (EV) battery factory in Manteno, Illinois, a small town southwest of Chicago.
The factory will cost $2 billion to construct, but Gotion Inc. is set to receive $8 billion in taxpayer subsidies: $500 million from Illinois taxpayers and a massive $7.5 billion from the federal government. All to a company with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
That’s one of the reasons why Manteno’s residents are so upset. And they aren’t the only ones. Gotion’s relationship to the CCP has inspired an effort by concerned Michigan residents to block Gotion from making a similar investment in their state. And a U.S. House committee is currently investigating Gotion’s plans to expand in America using taxpayer dollars.
The citizens of Manteo are right to ask the questions that need answering by Pritzker and others. Why are we giving $8 billion in taxpayer dollars to a company with Chinese Communist ties?
Read more about the Gotion controversy HERE.
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Unbelievable this is happening! But believable with Pritzker negotiating it. And what do Illinois taxpayers get from this “communist business”? We get to subsidize it…
No! Stop the madness! Stop bullying residents of Illinois and using our tax dollars to promote/support evil!
We have same problem in Michigan!! Our Gov is so set on destroying our land water and air! But we all need to stand together to fight against this tyranny!!
You have to pay people to start a business in Illinois, otherwise no one would.
What you describe is TIF; as executed in Illinois TIF is entirely corrupt and thoroughly destructive to the community/ politicaloutsiders.
Next time Pritzker does one of his morality lectures, ask him why he is the compliant prostitute for the Chinese Communist Party that has killed over 40 Million people and is still waging genocide against Uighur Muslims.