The biggest jobs deal yet to be announced during the new presidential administration exemplifies everything that’s wrong with our nation’s economic development system.

The tone was giddy as President Donald Trump himself headlined a July 26 White House event to announce that Taiwanese electronics maker Foxconn will build a large new plant in southeastern Wisconsin. Warming up the crowd were Foxconn chairman Terry Gou, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, in whose Congressional District the plant will likely reside.

However, no media questions were allowed and no mention was made of the deal’s staggering costs for Wisconsin taxpayers. At a projected $3 billion (before local subsidies, which the state signaled will be liberalized just for this deal), it would the fourth-costliest economic development subsidy package in U.S. history.

Even if the project creates all 13,000 jobs the politicians said it potentially could–and I find that absolutely not credible given how automated high-tech manufacturing has become–that means a cost of more than $230,000 per job.

At that price, the deal is a sure loser for Wisconsin taxpayers. That’s because there is no way the typical Foxconn worker will pay $230,000 more in state and local taxes than she and her family will consume in public services over her work time there. At that price, the deal can only be accurately described as a transfer of wealth from Wisconsin taxpayers to Foxconn shareholders.

Besides high costs, benefits are likely to be lower than Walker’s press package suggest. Badgers won’t get all of the jobs: Like any high-tech company newly arriving in a labor market without the right executive talent pool, Foxconn will need to import managers and engineers from outside the state–and probably many of those from outside the United States–since there is no existing liquid-crystal display factory outside Asia.

Illinois is likely the biggest cost-benefit winner. Although the project site has not been finalized, the Racine-Kenosha area straddles the state line between Milwaukee and Chicago, and it draws many Prairie State job takers. Spending not a penny for the deal, Illinois would thus gain jobs, tax revenue, and “downstream” ripple-effect jobs as well. Indeed, Illinois’s economic development agency told the Chicago Tribune that it is already gearing up to help workers in three counties qualify for Foxconn jobs.