CostCertaintyVille
Toyota is passing up all kinds of incentives to build a new plant in the States and is instead coming North to Canuckistan.
Now, the news peg wants you to believe that this is all about the high skill and literacy levels:
WOODSTOCK, Ont. (CP) - Ontario workers are well-trained.
That simple explanation was cited as a main reason why Toyota turned its back on hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies offered from several American states in favour of building a second Ontario plant.
Industry experts say Ontarians are easier and cheaper to train - helping make it more cost-efficient to train workers when the new Woodstock plant opens in 2008, 40 kilometres away from its skilled workforce in Cambridge.But the kicker looks to be something else.
And it's called cost certainty.
As in health coverage, which as become one hella expensive upward death spiral for anyone using a workforce in the States that isn't willing to be treated like chattel.
"In addition to lower training costs, Canadian workers are also $4 to $5 cheaper to employ partly thanks to the taxpayer-funded health-care system in Canada, said federal Industry Minister David Emmerson.
"Most people don't think of our health-care system as being a competitive advantage," he said.
And it's not like folks running a good portion of the American government, at least those that actually care about what is happening to their country, don't want to rectify this because at least 18 States are seriously considering starting up Universal Healthcare programs of their own.
Now, if we could just convince all of those State legislators that it is also fun to take trips with Rosie O'Donnell, not to mention to 'Stay at the YMCA'.
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Original Link Source: Coreuleus at AllSpinZone.
Update: And those chattel chasers? Why they would be folks like this. Thanks to RJ Eskow at Skippy for the link.
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