Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The closing of the Detroit factories was mostly due to two main reasons, the lack of modernisation and the huge wage bill which include healthcare.
|
No Paul. Why do you insist on thinking you know what happens here in the U.S.?
The same exact companies that LEFT Detroit are thriving. They simply built new plants in non-union (right to work) states with less taxes. And of course some of them (like Ford) built a plant in Mexico.
They were always "modernized" in Detroit. Some of the modernization was fought by unions (of course) who thought it would cost them too many jobs.
In the end...over taxation and unions getting too greedy killed Detroit.