As a free marketeer I think you should be allowed to build wherever you want, but this will will resonate huge in MI and some of the other rust-belt states (OH has been slammed hard by GM’s pull out). Trump will absolutely tear off a significant portion of Dem voters with this kind of talk.
What Trump can do is to prevent America from buying so much imported goods, by making them more expensive by TAXING IMPORTS.
We need more revenue, and we need jobs back.
Tax imports. Big time.
OH has been slammed hard by GM’s pull out
And remains ignorant of why new car plants are built in right to work states.
We'll sure, he's talking like a left wing pro-union Democrat, of course he will buy off some of their votes using liberal rhetoric.
He could buy off even more of those Dem voters if he resurrected his massive wealth tax, or changed his mind again and wanted single payer health care, etc.
If Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton said they would "not allow" Ford to move to Mexico, most conservatives would be outraged. They don't have the right to tell Ford where they can build their plants. And neither can they just impose a huge tariff on their own the way some people here seem to think they can (we have congressionally approved trade agreements with these countries that can't just be torn up over night).
This is just another example proving that Trump is not a conservative. I begin to wonder if his supporters, even here on a supposedly conservative website, are actually conservative or if they'd be better labeled as nationalists first with actual conservatism taking a minor role in the back seat.
Ford already builds cars in Mexico.
Our 2012 Fusion was built there.
He said he would convince Ford, not forbid. He’s not denying their right to build in Mexico.