Only 10% of manufacturing workers are unionized and the trend is downward. Ford is making profits, big profits. The question is should Ford use US resources and US labor to produce products for the US market? The answer is yes. As for taxes I would lower taxes for all manufactures. But that isn't going to happen today. Tariffs are a legitimate form of taxation and have side benefit of preventing what Ford did. Do you think Ford would do this if there was a standing 25% tariff on imported vehicles from Mexico? Do you know anything about Henry Ford? Would he condone this?
“Only 10% of manufacturing workers are unionized and the trend is downward. “
But not in the automaking industry, which is what we’re talking about here! And sure, you can tax Ford on it’s off-shore production, but all that does is make them more un-competitive here and make Americans buy more foreign-made cars! If Ford thought it could successfully compete here in the US, do you really think they’d be moving to Mexico? Just the environmental costs here are astronomical, and they are unending, because the EPA doesn’t give a $hit whether or not Ford survives here. Also, you might tell us all how Ford will survive paying their retired UAW workers the “benefits” they have “earned” here? Actually, Ford and the others are simply reaping the “benefits” of their prior managment’s give-a-ways to their union workers over the past 50 years, just like our government has done to it’s workforce.