help an ohio worker? well, that s not what it is going to be. let s say it is going to reduce taxes on businesses, which it will be. we have to do that to be competitive. everybody gets that. when you have the highest business tax rate in the entire world among all the industrialized countries and 2 1/2 to $3 trillion locked up overseas that isn t coming back we have a real problem. so we do have jobs and investment leaving this country. companies in ohio are choosing to become foreign companies. it is crazy. a new study just came out saying there would be 4700 more u.s. companies than foreign companies if we had done this kind of tax reform about a decade ago. so we want these jobs back here. so for the people i represent i was just visiting five auto plants in ohio last week and talking to the uaw workers and the other auto workers there about their future. they want to have a competitive tax code because they don t
and the rebirth of american industry is beginning. america is winning again and america is being respected again and you see that happening all over. you see the five plants that were announced just recently, auto plants, so many people are coming back into this country, they want to be back in. other countries are bringing their companies and sending their companies in. they all want to be back and that s great for our worker. on every front in every way, every policy, we are guided by the same economic goal, to keep jobs in america, to bring jobs to america, to create real prosperity for america, the country that we love. that is why we have lifted the restrictions on american energy, ending the war on coal, approving the keystone, xl and the dakota access pipelines, and
tirelessly to end the industry-killing regular lagtss, to ensure a level playing field for all american companies and workers. before nafta went into effect by the way, nafta, a total disaster there were 280,000 autoworkers in michigan. today that number is roughly 165,000. and would have been heading down big league if i didn t get elected, i will tell you that right now. that i can tell you. plenty of things were stopped in their tracks. they were stopped in their tracks. a lot of bad things were going to happen. a lot of places were going to get built that aren t going to get built in other loektscation. the number of auto plants in the state have been cut by a third. motor city, once set the standard of living for the nation. now it s suffered under decades
lower the job crushing taxes and to ensure a level playing field for all american companies and workers. before nafta went into effect, by the way, nafta, a total disaster. there were 280,000 autoworkers in michigan. today that number is roughly 165,000. and would have been heading down big league if i didn t get elected. plenty of things were stopped in their tracks. they were stopped in their tracks. lot of bad things were going to happen. lot of places that were going to get built aren t going to get built in other location. number of auto plants in the state has been cut by a third. motor city. once set the standard of living for the nation. now it has suffered under the decades of failed economic decisions that have stripped our
donald trump prepares to move out of midtown manhattan and move out of trump tower he is trying to draw attention to some of the things he has done here during the transition, so he tweeted a little while ago this. with all of the jobs i am bringing back into the u.s. (even before taking office), with all of the new auto plants coming back into our... country and with the massive cost reductions i have negotiated on military purchases and more, i believe the people are seeing big stuff. and just before that tweet, gm announced they are going to stop doing some work on axles for full-size pickup trucks in mexico and start doing it in michigan. remember a few weeks ago, the president-elect had called general motors out for selling some chevy hatchbacks in the u.s. that were made in mexico and this doesn t address that issue, but the carmaker said in a statement, as a u.s. manufacturing base increases its competitiveness, we are able to further increase our investment, resulting in m