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Originally Posted by tony286
There are no other jobs its becoming more and more fast food and walmart jobs.
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Then we need to get to a solution for that.
First thing that makes sense to me is the argument we've had for the last few years:
Make the U.S.A. the most attractive place for business to operate. Tax incentives, reigning in the unions, etc.
Otherwise companies will continue to take their plants elsewhere.
I believe that with a few good tax incentives and getting unions out of the way it could be accomplished.
I saw it with my own 2 eyes when I lived in the upstate of South Carolina. They laid it out on a silver platter for BMW.
And BMW built their plant there and changed the entire economy of Greenville/Spartanburg S.C.
Before they came there in the late 1990's, the area was in ruins economically. The entire area had been all about textiles for over a century. But that was all gone.
Then the govt. negotiated with BMW, gave them massive tax breaks. And there is no union in S.C.
They opened up. Thousands of people got high paying jobs at the plant. And the ripple effect super-charged the economy there.
If the upstate of S.C. can do it...so can the rest of the country.