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Originally Posted by USAFJeeper
Isn't anyone else struck by the irony of the protectionists here... The Camaro is being built in Canada isn't it? Doesn't that make it an import?
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Originally Posted by BowtieGuy
So because Toyota has plants in America that makes it domestic? It doesn't matter where they are assembled, it matters where they are born.
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cars built in Canada and Mexico by corporations based inside the United States would be exempt in these policies that I support... and the North American Free Trade Agreement would support that idea.
when GM, Ford and Chrysler are allowed to buy plants in Japan and build Cobalts, Focuses and Calibers in Japan, I'll start to think of the Toyotas, Hondas and Nissans as playing fair... if they dont like the taxes and tariffs imposed on them, they need to petition their government to lower the restrictions on the American auto makers... play fair or go home.
and this pains me, because I am actually a Honda fan... I have had 2 Civics in my life and they were BOTH made here in the USA... and I honestly believe that they are one of the best manufacturers out there and the Americans should be using them as a benchmark of build quality and reliability... and since almost nothing they sell in the USA is made anywhere but here in the US, they're one of the ones that would be hardest hit by the policies that I support... but leveling the playing field and protecting AMERICAN jobs in AMERICAN factories with AMERICAN employees and AMERICAN managers is what we need right now... not someone trying to play favorites based on what some Congressman who screwed up and gave almost a trillion dollars to bank executives who are STILL going on CRAZY EXPENSIVE VACATIONS on the taxpayers' dollars.