As the Senate debated the GOP tax bill one year ago, senators listened as an expert witness confirmed that the bill would encourage corporations to close up factories here and move overseas.
So no one in Washington should be surprised that the very same day GM laid off workers in Lordstown, Ohio, it announced plans to make the Blazer in Mexico. And now, after taking its tax windfall, GM is eliminating 14,000 American jobs.
It doesn’t have to be this way. The American Cars, American Jobs Act would get rid of tax cuts for moving jobs overseas and increase demand for American-made cars. brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press…
