Reply #36: Were the textile industries paying their taxes?... [View All]

...The South has lured industry for over a century by bragging about the near-Third World conditions, lax environmental standards and easily exploitable (basically disposable) labor. For generations, they merely turned northward, opened their arms and chanted, "Cheap land, cheap labor, cheap taxes." Now it's become known as an industrial tier between what used to be the American standard and the standard for places with despots and banana republics.

Of course, it's become clearer that the USA has more than its share of despotism, banana republic occurrences and encroaching fascism.

But leaving all reason aside and going merely on intuition, if a political/socio-economic practice or trend has earned raves among the elected leaders of the Deep South, it is bad for America. If Haley Barbour and Bob Riley are for it, fight like hell.