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Can someone please splain to me how a nominal tax caused less people to need hip joints?
Toyota located a plant in Canada because they have universal healthcare.
But last month Toyota decided to put the new plant, which will produce RAV4 mini-S.U.V.'s, in Ontario. Explaining why it passed up financial incentives to choose a U.S. location, the company cited the quality of Ontario's work force.
What made Toyota so sensitive to labor quality issues? Maybe we should discount remarks from the president of the Toronto-based Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, who claimed that the educational level in the Southern United States was so low that trainers for Japanese plants in Alabama had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech equipment.
But there are other reports, some coming from state officials, that confirm his basic point: Japanese auto companies opening plants in the Southern U.S. have been unfavorably surprised by the work force's poor level of training.
Obamacares is saving American lives.
If Republicans had their way, everyone would have guns, and no one would have healthcare.
Obamacares is saving American lives.
If Republicans had their way, everyone would have guns, and no one would have healthcare.
What cost us manufacturing jobs was Republicans moving millions to China from 2001 to 2008.
About 40,000 U.S. manufacturing plants closed between 2001 and 2008, resulting in the loss of millions of good-paying jobs. From 2001 to 2007, 2.3 million jobs were lost just from the U.S.s huge trade deficit with China.
Manufacturing a Better Future for America | Alliance for American Manufacturing
You may be with the wrong party. Are you sure you've thought this through?
If anything, it's the tidal wave of Pub BS fear mongering about Health Reform...Pub Dupes!
Obamacares is saving American lives.
If Republicans had their way, everyone would have guns, and no one would have healthcare.
prove it. cite your source for this statement.
Toyota located a plant in Canada because they have universal healthcare.
that was one factor. you conveniently neglect to mention this part...
Toyota, Moving Northward - New York Times
But last month Toyota decided to put the new plant, which will produce RAV4 mini-S.U.V.'s, in Ontario. Explaining why it passed up financial incentives to choose a U.S. location, the company cited the quality of Ontario's work force.
What made Toyota so sensitive to labor quality issues? Maybe we should discount remarks from the president of the Toronto-based Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, who claimed that the educational level in the Southern United States was so low that trainers for Japanese plants in Alabama had to use "pictorials" to teach some illiterate workers how to use high-tech equipment.
But there are other reports, some coming from state officials, that confirm his basic point: Japanese auto companies opening plants in the Southern U.S. have been unfavorably surprised by the work force's poor level of training.
Can someone please splain to me how a nominal tax caused less people to need hip joints?
It doesn't....The tax increases the cost of creating the product. The added cost makes the product price less competitive.
"start collecting a new tax on medical devices from tongue depressors "
I can understand the right wing depression over this.
Heck! cutting govt spending will end Many jobs.
Sending must be cut, the only contention is what to cut.
Great idea. Let's put more stress on the cost of services with additional taxes. That will solve shit.
Might also cut some waste?
Btw I am neutral on the tax. Do not know enough about it yet.
Is this a new tax or just taxing them like if they were in any other business?
Toyota located a plant in Canada because they have universal healthcare.
Toyota located a plant in Canada because they have universal healthcare.
Funny, Toyota said they were more worried about the training costs because American workers are not as well educated, but feel free to blame health care for that.
Great idea. Let's put more stress on the cost of services with additional taxes. That will solve shit.
Might also cut some waste?
Btw I am neutral on the tax. Do not know enough about it yet.
Is this a new tax or just taxing them like if they were in any other business?
It is a tax on medical devices that never existed before, and applies only to manufacture and sale of medical devices. Other than that, it is just like any other tax that applies to all industries.
I don't think anyone credibly disputes that, all else equal, taxing an industry hurts it.
That being said, this is an editorial by an editor for the National Review, citing numbers from an industry advocacy group. It deliberately presents a very one-sided view of the tax.
present the other side, then. Show us where the tax is not the reason for the job cuts, as cited by the companies mentioned.
Might also cut some waste?
Btw I am neutral on the tax. Do not know enough about it yet.
Is this a new tax or just taxing them like if they were in any other business?
It is a tax on medical devices that never existed before, and applies only to manufacture and sale of medical devices. Other than that, it is just like any other tax that applies to all industries.
So you are saying that if they were making ball joints for trucks they would not be subject to a tax as they are for making human joints?