Manchurian Republicans
It’s thoroughly disgusting to watch hacks like Bob Corker rail about Detroit’s failed business model, when his own state gives enormous subsidies to foreign automakers
Tennessee offered its richest incentive package — and perhaps the most government assistance and tax breaks ever for an American automobile plant — to lure Volkswagen to Chattanooga.
But the state’s chief business recruiter said Wednesday that the benefits from VW’s $1 billion assembly plant far will exceed what could top $500 million in government assistance and tax breaks for the project.
“The Volkswagen investment in this community is going to have a tremendous economic gain for the entire region,” said Matt Kisber, Tennessee’s commissioner for economic and community development. “I’m confident we’re going to have a very reasonable incentive package when you look at the initial costs of what is being offered compared with a much bigger long-term return.”
the VW plant usues no-union labor, with much lower wages and much fewer benefits. So what Corker wants is to bust an American union so foreign companies will have less competition. So much for believing in America, eh? Just who are these Republicans loyal to, anyway? Why does japan’s interest trump the interest of American workers?
Jane Hamsher has much more on the Great Republican Depression of 2009.
