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Old 01-10-2018, 07:28 AM
 
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private toll roads have become the norm all over the country in the past 10 years. Metro DC is full of them.
And it is NOT a good thing for the average, working person. You have to be wealthy to use those lanes with any regularity. The people making a standard wage are now sitting in worse traffic.
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Old 01-10-2018, 07:31 AM
 
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Are we now going to have competing threads every time a plant somewhere opens or closes?

This is getting old
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Old 01-10-2018, 07:51 AM
 
Location: New Orleans, La. USA
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Psst. Rumor has it that the Japanese waited for Alabama to turn blue, too, before choosing Alabama.
Sources have it that the Japanese chose Alabama because,

They could "capitalize on a sharp increase in state tax incentives recently signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey."

And because of "the strength of Alabama's manufacturing sector. The state assembled more than 1 million vehicles in 2016 at plants employing nearly 40,000 workers."

"Alabama was long viewed as one of the leading contenders for the factory because of its tax incentives, low-cost labor and bustling automotive sector."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nt/1018922001/
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Old 01-10-2018, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Sources have it that the Japanese chose Alabama because,

They could "capitalize on a sharp increase in state tax incentives recently signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey."

And because of "the strength of Alabama's manufacturing sector. The state assembled more than 1 million vehicles in 2016 at plants employing nearly 40,000 workers."

"Alabama was long viewed as one of the leading contenders for the factory because of its tax incentives, low-cost labor and bustling automotive sector."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nt/1018922001/
They don’t wish to believe in facts, easier to just credit Trump.
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Old 01-10-2018, 10:24 AM
 
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Get a grip. Perspective and understanding would help to. Know your emojis. The one I used in the post, to which responded to is to indicate sarcasm. States are all competing for new manufacturing jobs through incentives, training, schools; you name it.

The Trump administration is just making it more attractive to set up business in the U.S. in general.

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Sources have it that the Japanese chose Alabama because,

They could "capitalize on a sharp increase in state tax incentives recently signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey."

And because of "the strength of Alabama's manufacturing sector. The state assembled more than 1 million vehicles in 2016 at plants employing nearly 40,000 workers."

"Alabama was long viewed as one of the leading contenders for the factory because of its tax incentives, low-cost labor and bustling automotive sector."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nt/1018922001/
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Old 01-10-2018, 11:22 AM
 
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New York's economic development plan has been to spend $1 billion around Buffalo. They got a solar cell plant which is broke. They also built a casino. Several, actually. None of them are doing as well as planned.
And they built a film studio in Syracuse. No one ever worked there. There's some kind of drone thing in Utica that went belly-up.
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Old 01-10-2018, 11:29 AM
 
Location: USA
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New York's economic development plan has been to spend $1 billion around Buffalo. They got a solar cell plant which is broke. They also built a casino. Several, actually. None of them are doing as well as planned.
And they built a film studio in Syracuse. No one ever worked there. There's some kind of drone thing in Utica that went belly-up.
That’s typical New York State.

They’d have been better off paying people to dig holes and fill them back up. At least there wouldn’t be any liabilities like empty casinos and film studios that need maintenance and staff.
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Old 01-10-2018, 12:14 PM
 
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nt/1018922001/

Funds shrink for job training in aircraft, other industries | The Wichita Eagle

Love to see all those Made In America, tangible, solid manufacturing jobs in middle-America.

Under Obama, it was mainly fake jobs being created because of artificially low interest rates and big government spending.

Take out the zero-interest rate policy that Obama and Yellen colluded on to stimulate the economy in a very fake way with economic ramifications for the future and he would have been a failure.

Under President Trump lots and lots and lots of tangible mining, manufacturing and construction jobs due to his big tax cuts and doing his executive orders doing away with Barack Obama's obstructionist and silly regulations and red-tape.

Obama jobs were mainly bankers and financiers shuffling money around putting American consumers deeper into debt while the elite profited off big commissions.

Obama jobs were also lots of fake lobbyist, fake consultant, fake healthcare consultant, needless government jobs.

Lots of Obama jobs were due to debt, debt and more debt whether it pushing American's deeper into debt or government into debt for things like Obamacare that doubled the debt in one Presidency.

Looks like under President Trump lots, lots and lots of real construction and manufacturing jobs. Love how under President Trump that many of the jobs being created are tangible jobs.

There is a place for the service economy and information technology of course but so glad under President Trump so many tangible bread and butter mining, construction, agriculture, machinery, manufacturing jobs being created.
So Obama should get all the credit for Boeing, Volvo, etc. plants in South Carolina announced during this Presidency?

Really -- you want to play that game?

Seriously -- be careful.
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Old 01-10-2018, 12:17 PM
 
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Aircraft jobs, hum.......

I can see the objection from the left now.

These jobs can fly away at anytime.

They are not permanent jobs like in government.
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Old 01-10-2018, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Florida
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...nt/1018922001/

Funds shrink for job training in aircraft, other industries | The Wichita Eagle

Love to see all those Made In America, tangible, solid manufacturing jobs in middle-America.
Under Obama, it was mainly fake jobs being created because of artificially low interest rates and big government spending.Take out the zero-interest rate policy that Obama and Yellen colluded on to stimulate the economy in a very fake way with economic ramifications for the future and he would have been a failure.
Under President Trump lots and lots and lots of tangible mining, manufacturing and construction jobs due to his big tax cuts and doing his executive orders doing away with Barack Obama's obstructionist and silly regulations and red-tape.
Obama jobs were mainly bankers and financiers shuffling money around putting American consumers deeper into debt while the elite profited off big commissions.
Obama jobs were also lots of fake lobbyist, fake consultant, fake healthcare consultant, needless government jobs.
Lots of Obama jobs were due to debt, debt and more debt whether it pushing American's deeper into debt or government into debt for things like Obamacare that doubled the debt in one Presidency.
Looks like under President Trump lots, lots and lots of real construction and manufacturing jobs. Love how under President Trump that many of the jobs being created are tangible jobs.
There is a place for the service economy and information technology of course but so glad under President Trump so many tangible bread and butter mining, construction, agriculture, machinery, manufacturing jobs being created.
Sounds like there was more to it than your title suggests.

"...The move suggests that Toyota and Mazda may be poised to capitalize on a sharp increase in state tax incentives recently signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey..."

It also reflects the strength of Alabama's manufacturing sector. The state assembled more than 1 million vehicles in 2016 at plants employing nearly 40,000 workers. The statewide unemployment rate was 3.5% in November.
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