Yep. But the software industry is-has.
Probably the best thing one could do for the auto industry, besides getting managers into it that have a clue, would be to get rid of the income tax. There's a lot of the price of American goods and services that are the result of corporate income tax. Go to a sales tax, and our products and services become instantly cheaper for foriegners, plus theirs being sold here become more expensive while our own goods and services don't rise very much domestically because of the cheaper initial price due again to the income tax expense being deleted from that price. And wouldn't it be heaven not to spend the time and about 600 billion dollars nationwide in hbuttling with figuring out the income tax? Yeah!
It makes them less susceptible to import qoutas although I doubt that's the only reason for it.
Yeah - that's part of the boneheadedness of the current management.
People will buy cars perceived to be of higher quality. Not sure to what degree it is true any more - American cars are a lot better than what they were. Plus, for my own part, my favorite American car, Jeep Cherokee, has sold out to the boulavard cruiser sort of SUV and made the rear seats actually functional, rather than keeping the car so you can haul things, so now there's virtually no room behind the rear seats in the Jeep Liberty. I normally carry considerable stuff back there, including a Kenwood TS-2000 ham radio for mobile operation, that isn't going to fit in a Liberty. And the damn thing is bigger in every dimension, weighs 4500 lbs instead of the 3500 of my '98 Cherokee, and gets sucko gas mileage - 13 mpg according to an early road test I read in a car magazine. Sooo... the next vehicle will be either a Subaru wagon if the next BRAC activity by the DOD doesn't close the Navy base where I work, or a VW Jetta TurboDiesel Wagon if it does (nice, fuel-efficient 49 mpg will save me a lotta $$$ in fuel).
Dave Head
