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RACINE COUNTY — County officials remained mum Monday on a potential sales tax increase that could be enacted should Racine County be chosen as the site for the Foxconn plant.

The Foxconn bill, which was signed by Gov. Scott Walker on Sept. 18 in Sturtevant, contains verbiage granting the county that lands Foxconn the ability to pass an ordinance increasing the county sales tax by up to 0.5 percent.

The purpose of this increase would be “directly reducing the property tax levy,” according to the bill.

A representative from the office of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said Vos has been supportive of the measure because officials from counties where the plant has or had been discussed as locations for the massive Foxconn project (specifically Racine and Kenosha) asked to have the the ability to increase the sales tax.

The City of Kenosha has dropped out of consideration for the plant, leaving western Mount Pleasant and Sturtevant in Racine County as the main target of speculation for the plant, which would manufacture liquid crystal display screens for Apple Corp. products.