What if, instead of all of us paying in order to have a car industry, we take that tax money and pay to an ecological restoration industry or functioning healthcare industry or whatever. Have you seen the map of superfund sites? Statistically speaking, you are almost certainly living within 10 miles of a superfund
Japan, India, Germany, Mexico, etc all have massive auto manufacturing industries. If we're at war with all of those countries at the same time then maybe we deserve what's coming
China only became an auto industry power house in the 00s.
I wonder if the argument turns on Michigan being a helpful state in presidential elections - many other parts of the Midwest have lost their former industry and fallen on hard times.
That sounds to me like spending money to fix broken windows, rather than building our own windows (and not buying the old windows that were always breaking)
https://epa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=...
There is a LOT of other work we could be doing if we stopped trying to uphold existing uncompetitive industries