[Responsibility2nd]

It seems obvious to me that local and state officials made tax breaks and other incentives for VW to operate.

So yeah. If workers do Unionize - Tenneesee should beat the hell out of them as they take back the government goodies.

[Dr. Sivana]

Leave out the snarky remarks and smoldery bedroom politics and you’d have the full 43 minutes for diagnosis, up from probably 20.

My understanding is that the tax breaks (which I am not a fan of either, unless they are provided to all manufacturers) would likely be for the economic advantages that come from having a large employer in the area, including jobs, collateral business activity in support of the large employer, extra taxes (even after the tax breaks).

The only reason against might be that it will enrich the Republicans' political enemies.

I believe that Tennessee is a right to work state, so those who don't want in don't have to be in. If the Republican majority will pull goodies because a business doesn't do things its way, that seems a bit like the flip-side of soft fascism. Caesar is very hungry.

[AnAmericanInEngland]

End the tax breaks because they dont like the fact that the private employer’s employees have voted to unionize? Talk about government interference in private business. So the employees unionize. The plant still pumps tons of Deutsche marks into TN’s coffers, heck possibly more if wages increase.