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Re: [OM] Fwd: Slightly OT: Manufacturing in Amerca

Subject: Re: [OM] Fwd: Slightly OT: Manufacturing in Amerca
From: Tina Manley <tmanley@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 17:32:28 -0400
That's certainly true of South Carolina and they get enormous tax breaks
from the state for building their plants here.

Tina


On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:55 AM, John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think you'll find that all, or most, of the foreign auto manufacturers
> have located their plants in "right to work states", where wages are lower
> than in the other states and where labour disputes are less likely to
> happen, along with plants in Brazil and Mexico.
>
> jh
>
>
>
> On 8/16/2014 9:01 AM, Bill Barber via olympus wrote:
>
>> Part of it has to do with taxes, when corporations are asked to pay a much
>> higher tax than most other countries and more and more individuals move
>> off
>> the  tax rolls and onto the government payroll.  Bill "fire suit wearing
>> senior  citizen" Barber
>>     In a message dated 8/15/2014 11:34:15 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>>
>> I find  it fascinating that German and Japanese manufacturers can make
>> things in  the US, paying their American employees high wages, and still
>> make profits  when American companies are furiously shipping every job
>> they
>> can overseas  because they claim that they cannot make money paying living
>> wages (or even  the starvation level Minimum Wage in the  US).
>>
>>
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