 Re: Top 10 most "American" cars
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Originally Posted by ccsial  Which is better, which benefits the US more, I wonder.
1. Buy US car where profits go to US and jobs are provided outside US.
2. Buy foreign car where profits go off shore but jobs are provided in the US. | I would say resoundingly #1 since even the rapidly shrinking domestic 3 still employ more than the foreigners and the profits stay here. Heck, even the gov't benefits because they tax the domestics more than the foreigners, too.
What's also lost is a national security topic of us not being able to build vehicles. What will we do get the Chinese to build them?
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