"Except for 13,000 people paying taxes, I'm sure that doesn't bring any money in."
I've a much better bit of sarcasm for you. Do The Maths.
For your 13,000 tax payers (the *original* estimate foxconn gave was 5,200 workers BTW), the investment was $4 Billion. That's an investment of $307,000 ish per worker. The average tax paid for an American over their *entire* working career of 40 years is around $188,000 (Source: Forbes).
At the current expected number of 1,000 workers, that's about $4m per worker.
Still look like a sensible deal?
Interesting article from boing boing yesterday :
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/30/sending-jobs-to-jina.html