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Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!

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From: Thomas Clarke
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:01
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In article <BzGp92.9Gr@tss.com> burke@tss.com (Jim Burke) writes:
> In article <1992Dec17.123430.24528@hellgate.utah.edu>,  
llarsen%peruvian.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Loren Larsen) writes:
> 
> |> BZZT! WRONG!  Consider that almost 80% of all Honda cars are made from
> |> the ground up in the US.  
> 
> There is another big reason that foreign companies, including Japanese ones,
> locate assembly plants in the U.S.  That is so that they can avoid paying
> a lot of income taxes on the huge profits they make from the U.S. market.

I saw a New Yorker Cartoon:
An auto dealership, the salesman talking to a couple looking at
a car.  He is saying:
"And it's made in America with Japanese know-how!"

Sad, but true.
--
Thomas Clarke
Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 300, Orlando, FL 32826
(407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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