(November 22, 2016 at 8:19 pm)chimp3 Wrote: The Festiva should be made in Mexico. Cheap cars need to have low prices. Building the Festiva here is just going to jack up the price. The consumer is benefiting. Ford is keeping Lincoln production in Kentucky because Americans will pay the price.
It is cheaper at the moment, but what Trump is purposing is putting a tax a big one on all imported good from mexico. Clinton 1 signed the North American Free trade agreement/NAFTA. When he did that big companies like ford started shipping all their factories to mexico because no labor unions which means for the cost of 1 American worker they could now hire 4 Mexican workers.
But because Trump told ford there will be a 35% tax comming on all imports from Mexico... Ford said it is now cheaper to employ american workers.
NOW it is cheaper to build the festiva or whatever ford wants to build here.
This means Ford and companies like ford will look to cash in on now cheaper production costs in the USA rather than over seas. That means reopening factories here which means jobs here.
To put it another way when we have more production jobs here we have a larger consumer base as more people are working and have more of a disposable income.
