Pop Quiz: Define Hypocrisy: Trump-GOP Phony Tax Cut and Harley-Davidson Greed

Historical poster pledge to America

(115 years of pride down the drain)

Got the tax cut and now moving to Bangkok

(Make Thailand Great Again)

Full Disclosure: I am not and never have been a “biker,” but I do like to see them and watch them on the track and road. They are fine machines for sure – and now this – the flip side of that coin.

Highlights from this story:

HONG KONG – Iconic motorcycle builder Harley-Davidson, praised by Trump as a pillar of American manufacturing and keeping jobs at home, is building a new plant in Thailand. Harley-Davidson serves as an example of the nuanced economic realities that are pushing American companies to lay off workers at home and set up new factories overseas.

American Unions representing workers accuse the company of cutting jobs to hire lower-paid foreign workers. Yet global trade barriers and proximity to a growing base of new customers also play roles, complexities inherent in Trump’s ambition to overhaul trade policy.

From Harley-Davidson Rebuttal from Marc D McAllister, a managing director of international sales at Harley-Davidson based in Singapore about the motorcycles made in the new factory are plans for which had not been previously disclosed and now to be sold in Asia, not the United States, which its domestic plants will continue to serve said: “This is absolutely not about taking jobs out of the United States. This is about growing our business in Asia.”

Still, unions representing its workers in the United States are not pleased: “Why couldn’t we build them in the US and export them?” [That from Leo W Gerard, the international president of the United Steelworkers, which represents Harley-Davidson workers at plants in Wisconsin and Missouri]. 

He also expressed concern that the company could be entering a “race to the bottom” in pursuit of lower labor costs.

Robert Martinez Jr, the international president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers [the union represents Harley-Davidson workers at plants including one in York, Pennsylvania, where the company plans to lay off over 100 workers] said: “It’s a slap in the face to the US workers who built an American icon.”

  

My 2 Cents: Story continues at the link. 

Is kind of hypocritical isn’t it? 

Benefit and brag from and about the Trump-GOP recent huge tax cut, tax breaks, and then dash offshore to make more profits.

What do we call that? Oh, yeah, 100% pure GOP hørseshït. Now the question is; How do you get the shït back in the horse? 

Pitiful isn't it — but not unexpected considering it's usually SOP with GOP tax policies: help the top 5% crust while BS-ing and pandering to the bottom 95%.

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