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The automotive industry here in America has endured a difficult few decades.
Though places like Michigan were once the epicenter of production for passenger vehicles, the advent of globalization and the emergence of stifling economic policies has crushed the sector.
Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer apparently resorted to glorified bribery in the form of tax funded subsidies for automakers, and even that is not keeping them in her state.
They cannot do business with Democrats.
In one example, a company called Akasol, which produces lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles, is moving operations to South Carolina even after pocketing $900,000 from Michigan.
