kootchman
Interesting… analysis or hallucination .. I can’t tell. First, the largest auto market in the world is no longer North America. Those that ARE building new plants are doing so in non-union states are are doing very well. Good cars too. The UAW has the highest manufactured unit costs in the world. GM the “saved” auto company? It’s still losing market share. Chrysler which never mad a fuel efficient vehicle … is now touting the new FIAT engine technology from their truck division. Automotive manufacturing is growing .. it’s growing in right to work states and by foreign companies. Want to see how good UAW has been for the manufacturing sector.. start counting. In 1963 every third vehicle was a GM produced car… stand at the corner in the junction… start counting. Won’t even be close. A million automotive jobs have been lost to better manufacturing methods, “design to manufacture” technology, and automation.
Paying more will be more patriotic? Dude, as soon as COL rises… unions strike. You want that living wage remember.. your grocery bill pops 30 per cent and your gasolines rises… to 7 gallon.. you’ll be on the picket line. I gotta better idea… take a 10 year wage and benefits freeze… patriotic thing to do. Make college affordable, cap tuition increases to the rate of inflation, raise them any higher, and you are no longer eligible for Pell grants. Cap wages and benefits increases at the core rate of inflation. Make colleges provide a product that is affordable. Loans and debts don’t make it affordable. When you subsidize spending costs rise. I argued that VAT while fine theory, it is almost a “flat” tax.. discourages employment… the more hands that touch it.. the more it costs.. second, it discourages consumption.
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