The South is taking over the auto industry due to booting the unions and generous TAX concessions. Nissan didn’t move their headquarters to Tennessee for no reason. Volkswagon in Chattanooga will be a very good thing.
According to Granholm they are moving manufacturing from Michigan because of HEALTHCARE!
And, Granholm wants to turn the Midwest from a ‘rust belt’ to a ‘greeen belt’ to reduce ‘GLOBAL WARMING’! I guess she hasn’t figured out that we KNOW IT’S A HOAX TO RAISE TAXES!
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Granholm:
And just as an example, in Michigan, you know, we — you spend as a consumer $1,200 to $1,600 in every vehicle, if it’s a domestically made American vehicle, for health care. Now, that’s not what is being spent by other — for consumers of other products that are not — that are from other countries, because other countries provide some assistance. There is a partnership there. The full burden of health care is not on the backs of the private sector.
So in this country, we have an opportunity to have a shared responsibility so that our businesses can be, in fact, more competitive.
More cars were built in Ontario than they were in Michigan two years ago and last year because they were — they weren’t going to Canada because of taxes or regulation, but they were going there because health care got a greater assist than it does in the United States. So that’s an important public-private partnership opportunity to make us more competitive.
On cap and trade, very quickly, I think that we have the means, especially in the industrial Midwest, to go from rust belt to green belt, to make the products — because we know how to make things — to make the products that are associated with reducing global warming and increasing energy efficiency.
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