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Originally Posted by hackney
Quite frankly our auto industry was never going to last anyhow,how much money do keep “throwing” @ it? Good Money after bad.Was never a fan of Governments throwing cash @ them.Not getting my hard earned money!Glad they are all gone,money can be redirected to better things.  |
Which manufacturing countries don't get subsidised by the govt of that country? Most manufacturing countries also have protections in place (import tariffs etc), which Australia, in their wisdom, reduced or abolished thanks to free trade agreements.
As mentioned by jpd, people fail to consider the revenue generated by the industry back to the govt in taxes and to the local industry in employer spending. That's just one example.
What's done is done, and I do believe it didn't have the volume to survive but there was less and less reasons to encourage them to stay in the end.