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Originally Posted by Mutt
Why did it get too expensive to operate in SC? You surely can't expect us to compete with China? There will always be a cheaper place to manufacture. No American wants the life of a Chinese factory worker.
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I don't know, by the time I lived in S.C. there were empty mills all over the place. Matter of fact, all three houses I owned there were old "mill houses" (built by the companies for their employees)
As for competing with China...S.C. competed with the rest of the world for that BMW plant and won it.
You can theorize all you want. But facts are facts. The state gave BMW a great deal. They decided that building the cars in S.C. to sell in the U.S was cheaper that way than building them in China or some other cheap labor country and having to import them into the U.S.
Bottom line is that "yes", you can make a more attractive environment for companies and get them to build here. I saw it with my own two eyes. And they aren't the only car company that did that.
The Southeastern U.S. is full of Honda, VW, Hyundai, and other company plants building cars...anywhere BUT Detroit because of the unions and the high taxes there.
That's why Detroit is a ghost town.