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Why did Louisiana miss the cut for an auto plant?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:44 am
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:44 am
Funroe Newspaper ponders the question.
Landmass > Bayou State...at least when it comes to automobile manufacturing.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas were considered.
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A little more than a decade ago, Louisiana was on the short list to land a new Toyota auto plant that eventually went to Tupelo, Mississippi.
But today Louisiana has been shut out of the competition to land America's next auto plant, a $1.6 billion joint venture from Toyota and Mazda that will create 4,000 jobs, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Landmass > Bayou State...at least when it comes to automobile manufacturing.
Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas were considered.
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Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:45 am to goofball
Because we have Elio Motors in Shreveport producing 100's of cars every month.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:45 am to goofball
We're too good for the Japanese.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:46 am to goofball
Because it's Louisiana.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:46 am to chinhoyang
quote:
we have Elio Motors in Shreveport producing 100's of cars every month
I didn't think they were actually in business.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:47 am to goofball
Mississippi politicians were willing to do the deal for fewer kickbacks.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:47 am to chinhoyang
quote:
Because we have Elio Motors in Shreveport producing 100's of cars every month.
Have they actually started production?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:48 am to goofball
1. Tax structure
2. short sighted politicians. (5-10 yr tax breaks)
2. short sighted politicians. (5-10 yr tax breaks)
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:48 am to goofball
Because money
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:48 am to goofball
Cause John Bell's got dat ill communication.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 11:48 am to goofball
We miss out because we have a governor not interested in bringing them here plus a lot of people would throw a fit if the State have them tax credits.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:06 pm to goofball
Not missing by much but JBE does not want to put up match money to improve rail or road access to a prospective plant location.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:17 pm to goofball
POLITICIANS & POLITICS Companies are wise to the state tactics and antics and want none of it.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:19 pm to goofball
Louisiana is below sea level and swamp land.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:19 pm to goofball
For all their faults Mississippi and Alabama can manufacture themselves some cars.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:20 pm to goofball
The tax environment in Louisiana is terrible. Why invest? TX and MS a lot better.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 12:33 pm to goofball
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Funroe Newspaper
no delorean isdera, no care.
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I looked up some old articles out of AUTOMOTIVE NEWS from mid-1987. John DeLorean was involved with a company called The Louisiana Motor Company Inc. Initially he was said to be a consultant involved in nogotiating with Govenor Edwin Edwards and officials from the city of Monroe about building an assembly plant there. By late June of '87 the German publication DIE WELT was saying that John was planning a venture in West Germany to produce the Isdera in Louisiana. None of it ever amounted to anything but the one Isdera built was pretty nice to look at. It was to sell for about $140,000 with an annual production of 75 to 100 cars.
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 8/16/17 at 1:25 pm to goofball
With Governor A$$hole Honor Code suggesting nothing but higher taxes, Louisiana will no longer be considered for any manufacturing plants.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 1:28 pm to goofball
Because statues
Posted on 8/16/17 at 1:36 pm to MMauler
Our tax code and structure, our fiscal inability and temporary taxes, our use of one time money to limit a deficit-all of which business believes will come back to them eventually to solve the states tax problems.
Our lack of infrastructure, willingness to provide infrastructure, unqualified workforce are factors.
It is to an automakers benefit to pick a state with no auto plant in order to get essentially 2 senators and several congressman on their side - to add to the politicians they already have (Southern states already with plants) but the benefit of that doesn't outweigh the risks of coming to LA considering there are other southern states with no plants and more favorable business climate.
Our lack of infrastructure, willingness to provide infrastructure, unqualified workforce are factors.
It is to an automakers benefit to pick a state with no auto plant in order to get essentially 2 senators and several congressman on their side - to add to the politicians they already have (Southern states already with plants) but the benefit of that doesn't outweigh the risks of coming to LA considering there are other southern states with no plants and more favorable business climate.
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