Toyota to invest $10 billion in US over five years

[haele]

1. Well, maybe. They may pull back a bit when our economy heads south.

If fewer U.S. consumers will be able to purchase or lease new cars, they don't need to make them here. Everything I've seen of the GOP/Ryan budget plans favors already well off rentiers - people who's majority income is off investments or payments, not workers or small family/start-up businesses.
Even their so-called "tax breaks for the middle class" work only if you're making over $150K a year and don't have a lot of dependents and aren't trying to finance a style of living that can only be sustained with an annual income of $300K.

How many people will be able to afford five years of payments on a $28K - $40K new car when they're only making $50K after taxes and still have to "be 100% responsible" for their own education, health-care and projected retirement per the GOP economic plan? Not to mention the devastation to credit scores a good number of working Americans are still experiencing due to the 2009 crash and slow recovery.

Haele