wilber1 wrote:
It also protects Ford, GM and FCA interests by discouraging outside competition. How many foreign companies that build vehicles in the US are UAW? None that I know of.
How did it protect Ford, GM, and FCA from the nine companies making trucks while the chicken tax still exists?
Fact: UAW lobbied for light trucks to be added to the chicken tax.
Fact: UAW continues to lobby to keep the 25% tariff to this day.
Fact: The chicken tax did NOT protect Ford, GM, and Chrysler(and was never meant to) from the nine companies that built truck while the chicken tax has been in place.
Fact: Three foreign brands still built trucks today. Two of witch has sold truck in the US for over four decades.
If your claims that the chicken tax allows the big three to coerce with each other(which is illegal in the US) to keep truck prices high, then why didn't the prices lower when Toyota and Nissan started making full size trucks? The fact is that the price is dictated by demand and others things such as the EPA fines and regulation. IF demand fell, then so would prices, but seeing that we are still buying them in record numbers (especially the more expensive trims) I don't see it happening anytime soon.
