Posted on 01/03/2017 5:53:42 AM PST by monkapotamus
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday attacked General Motors in a tweet, claiming the auto giant is making a Chevy Cruze model in Mexico and then sending them to U.S. dealers tax free.
"General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border. Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax!" Trump said on Twitter...
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Here's a crazy idea. Check to see if it is true first. Communication has to be accurate to be effective.
It might have been a mistake about what was happening, but it wasn’t a mistake about the principle.
This is what happens when God blesses someone sufficiently. Even his mistakes are blessed.
Think of a tariffs as a wall to keep out product instead of people.
And this is an opportunity for GM to act magnanimous. “We at GM have been proud to produce all our US-sold Cruzes in America, and have no plans to do otherwise.”
Certain versions, including a hatchback model, are imported to the U.S. from a plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
Do the regulatory, tax, and labor law reforms FIRST.
Would anyone on this forum tolerate 0bama trying to dictate terms to American manufacturers?
Certain versions, including a hatchback model, are imported to the U.S. from a plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
Wrong redneck :-)
However, I’d be more concerned about imbalance rather than about stopping trade per se (except for strategic goods). Ship Iowa grown corn to Mexico for its tortillas, deduct that from the balance, etc. Tax the balance, not the absolute trade.
Certain versions, including a hatchback model, are imported to the U.S. from a plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico.
If Barack had hypothetically backed off, or proposed backing off, regulatory burdens, he’d have something he could sanely deal in.
Think of a brain as a tool to keep incorrect statements off of Twitter.
Well... then this is going to get looked at.
It’s not a mistake. You can go to any Chevy dealer and find Mexican made Cruz’s. GM cheats. Look at the vin, GM Mexico is 3G. It’s usually in the driver door frame.
See #37; is this right.
Car companies can build their plants in the southern right to work states and avoid unions.
3G, third world GM
Under a Trump umbrella, they may be more likely to do this.
The union rank and file are slowly waking up to the reality that their union leadership has been milking them and that any other rewards said rank and file are getting are Pyrrhic.
“Just make all states right-to-work and remove compulsory union dues”
Eliminating automatic dues deductions from the paychecks forcing the employee to write checke to the union makes unions go away even faster
Yup - but you can’t force all 50 states into right to work without a constitutional amendment.
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