Whether responding by raising prices or cutting profits, Ford was going to move to Mexico for some economic reason. Just because the effect of staying in America isn’t as obvious as a group of people having to move to another job, this does not mean that there will not be a cost extracted for staying. Maybe “the price of American made trucks won’t be affected that much”, but the principle is the same. A government official (or, rather someone trying to be a government official) threatens a business, and the business complies not because it is a good idea, but because it is a threat from the government.
I would rather not go down that path.
Yes, we know. But we also know the end results.
We should not cut our own throats the altar of free trade.
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“the business complies not because it is a good idea”
A good idea for whom? For Ford, for America, or for the current top executives of Ford?
It’s bad for America and the American people, and in the long term for Ford. Is the national interest to receive no consideration whatsoever?