Not related to firearms, but somewhat related, Toyota and Mazda today announced they're building a plant in Huntsville.
Not related to firearms, but somewhat related, Toyota and Mazda today announced they're building a plant in Huntsville.
Great to see another firearms maker moving here to Bama.
-Butchman
Alabama is no different than any other state trying to entice businesses by offering tax incentives. The plus for Alabama and other southern states is the average wage is lower than it is in states like Illinois and Iowa for example. Unfortunately in some of the southern states there is a larger percentage of people that don't have a high school education or a tech school degree let alone college.
We're also getting a Toyota-Mazda plant near Huntsville that will provide some 4000 jobs plus the spinoffs. Toyota already has an engine plant in Huntsville.
Remington has been producing firearms in Huntsville for around two years.
BTW, North Carolina offered Toyota/Mazda almost twice the $$$ in tax incentives as Alabama did and we still got the plant.
Last edited by Rick N Bama; 01-12-2018 at 11:05 PM. Reason: Updating info
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lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting
the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
It is a win win for Kimber. Kimber and Alabama alike. Kimber will no doubt be taxed less and way less for a number of years. They will also have a workforce that costs less in several ways, wages just being one of them. What folks sometimes have a hard time understanding is , just because a person in Alabama makes less per hour than one in NY, does not mean he can not afford the same or even a better quality of life than someone making considerably more in other states.
As far as Alabama not having as high a percentage of college grads, I do not see that as a problem at all, excepting it may be hard to convince them rednecks they need to pay union dues. lol
If they come out with an SEC model they'll double their sales. Us illiterate rednecks and deplorables down henh wat love our colige teams do got a little buying power.
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Leonard Ravenhill
People can go right out of the door of Troy University and put in their resume. Or Auburn, or Alabama, or any number of good colleges and universities.
Tom
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We would have welcomed them to Tennessee with all the other manufacturers who have arrived lately (and are still coming).
There would have been welcome in Arkansas too! Good for Alabama, and good for the South.
Plus numerous Community Colleges teaching skills used by Kimber, Remington, Toyota, Kia, etc. Cullman County is home to one of the largest with some 6000 students attending earning associates degrees in various technical skills from accounting to welding. There are 4 such schools within commuting distance of my home plus three 4-year colleges.
Democracy is two wolves and a
lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting
the vote. - Benjamin Franklin
Yankees can say what they like about southerners but I have always considered myself a southerner even though I was born and raised in east/central Kentucky and never lived below the Mason/Dixon line, though I only live about 50 miles from where some think that line was drawn. My son works as a plant superintendent for Toyoto Enterprises in Alabama. There are clods everywhere including the south ... but there are plenty in the north as well, especially in the northeast and upper midwest. Be careful about casting aspersions. We need to remember that we are one nation, under God, indivisible ... and we are going to need every vote we can get in the next couple of elections. Big Boomer
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