[Mark Felton]

You must include the labor in the production of the parts as well, not just the touch labor expenditures by GM.

[esopman]

Yes, there are costs beyond the immediately ascertainable from an annual report to shareholders. E.g.: the electricity generated to smelt the aluminum to go in the casting for the frame of the alternator produced in the outsource......

Common Tator is nonetheless exhibiting extraordinary good sense. I work in the area of corporate taxation and CT's phrase, "Expensive Government is What Causes Poverty," is not only a global truth, but axiomatic for any informed economist. The cost of taxes and COMPLIANCE with tax regulations is driving many if not most of the major strategic decisions I see made by controlling shareholders.

It is a miracle that the U.S. economy has done as well as it has in the last century under the burden of exponentially growing government. The party will end, however, but that is another post.

Blessings on Freepers Everywhere (Let's be kind to one another - with enemies like Bubba Rex - we should not be verbally bayoneting our own wounded).