US Economy - American Manufacturing

what can be done to spur new business or create jobs?

something that wears out every 4 or 5 years? 3 in the drive? something most have to finance? its a renewable source of income, unlike a house, once its built its built.
it makes sense to me

as in the logging industry, they finally figured out that they better plant new sapplings, its is a renewable source of income

SNobsessed wrote: Adding value by making a raw material useful is the only real way for a society to create wealth.

The US needs manufacturing to keep everyone busy and prosperous! It's time to bring it back!

bottem line, tag shop and purchase US products whenever possible, sometimes its impossible.
if you are dead against american cars, go test drive one and compare, I think you'll be surprised

first good news I've heard in a long time....Toyoyta posts a 4.4 billion dollar loss....

Chrysler parking lot at 8:30 in the morning

8.30 in the morning... Either your camera or you are not telling the truth...

But anyway, it's a shame to see that parking empty.

eric lavine wrote: what can be done to spur new business or create jobs?

Man! Have you guys not heard what Greg (Buffalo) has been screaming?!?! FAIRTAX

I know you want brackets, Eric, but the FairTax does not work that way. Can you imagine the checkout girl at the grocery store asking you how much money you make so she knows how much tax to charge you??? That is just rediculous. If you want to stimulate business, cut all taxes for doing business int he US. When businesses prosper, they hire more workers. Those workers buy cars, eat out, just like you explained Eric, trickle down. I do not understand how the current administration figures that they can save us from our current econemy by raising taxes. Even taxing the rich is stupid. They are the ones creating jobs. And, I know what you are going to say, but I don't care. The rich need/want to make a certain amount of money, so if you tax them a bunch, what are they going to do? Lay off a few people to cover the new tax you just levied against them. This is not that hard.

Think about it this way, Eric. If your company did not have to pay any taxes, how much more money would you have to play with? Maybe you could lower your prices to attract new business and then hire a new mechanic to support the new business and so on and so on. It really is that simple.

Sorry, I will shut up now.

Brackets on income, straight sales tax across the board, lets say 10%.
2 things are certain my friends, taxes and death, in my eyes it is a privlidge to drive in this country and pay taxes in this country...the first pothole you guys hit on a federal interstate, you would blame the government, the governments source of income is taxes, fck you hand the old lady $100.00 bill and dont think twice about.
this country is what it is because of taxation.
now that Chrysler is gone in our city, so is the tax base, shty schools, snow on the streets, no leave pick up, no rec center
taxes are a part of life....Chrysler is not gone because of taxation its gone because no one was buying. thats the way it works. these companies close and the revenue from them goes along with it, how do you make up the revenue? from the city all the way up to the federal government

eric lavine wrote:    shty schools, snow on the streets, no leave pick up, no rec center

I have been paying taxes for the last 35 years and still have (or do not have) these listed items. Guy with a tractor down the street moves the snow off the road, if he is bored. I have to haul my own leaves off. I pass Rec Centers in the high end neighborhoods or in towns that are too far away.

So are you saying my taxes should be lower than yours ?? I bet they ain't....

If you paid a little less, you could spend a little more.

I'm surprised you aren't worried about the dihydrogen monoxide...

Doggone it Pete, Eric is exactly who I went fishing for!   LOL

I had forgotten the joke until the 'grandmother' where I get my hair cut started passing out a sonogram of her foot as a baby. She got 2 people with that...I got everyone there!

Remind me to tell the whole story at GL.

eric lavine wrote: Chrysler parking lot in the morning

Eric, where do you live? We have the Belvidere Assembly Plant (Chrysler) about 20 minutes away from our house. I assume the parking lot looks the same here. Sad, but makes me mad that all the union workers are still getting a pay check. Salaried people are all collecting unemployment.

Im in Aurora Ohio, many friends from the stamping plant.
its a double edged sword, its the competition that drives the price.
at one time the fairing may have been $500.00 which is reasonable, now you got a company that can make it for less, so the 10,000 of these $500.00 fiarings arnt selling anymore because you can buy them for $250.00 from China, it hurts the company's bottem line and all its employees, to compensate for the shortfall they have to raise the price to $1000.00.
you need the same volume or you have to raise the price. now the hong congers see this and say they are getting $1000.00 for these fairings, instead of $250.00 lets charge them $750.00 and they will still buy.
the same philosophy works in the auto industry.
thats why i said in a post if we stuck to the plan, cars would be 12,000 today insted of $25,000