Rural US towns reel as policies like tariffs cause global manufacturing companies to reconsider major investment projects

A host of Trump administration policies – tariff measures and the end of clean vehicle tax credits worth thousands of dollars to car buyers – are causing multinational manufacturing companies to consider pausing hundreds of millions of dollars in future investments, a move that would hit small, majority-Republican towns such as Jeffersonville especially hard.

Moreover, a raid by ICE immigration officers on a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Ellabell, a small town in south-east Georgia in September that saw more than 300 South Korean workers detained and sent home has sent shock waves through places like Jeffersonville and the C-suites of international companies alike.

  • altphoto@lemmy.today
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    4 hours ago

    Its like when you shoot your foot! Either one! It hurts a little at first. You guys just need to get over that part. Might as well shoot the other foot, again pretty painless initially. Hopefully we get over the little pain part. Everyone complaints about the little inconveniences like “what the heck I think In shot my foot!”. OK sure eggs and other food such as everything costs more. And also everything such as everything costs more. But this is just a little pain we have to endure if we want to see the results.

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    9 hours ago

    Yeah. That’s what happens when you absolutely refuse to understand that tariffs are passed on to the consumer and not some tax on a foreign country that magically won’t affect you.

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    16 hours ago

    Boo hoo. Fuck you. I actually hope the worst for you since that’s exactly what you voted for.

    Zero sympathy.