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Good. Now let's hope the property gets bought up by some shitty finance company and torn the fuck down so we can be sure they can never have it again.
Wtf, this place probably employed many people in their community. You're gloating about the misfortune coming to many people just because someone who has a different political view than you will also be hurt?
You would rather see a sawmill torn the fuck down and all of the workers on the street just to spite a family who used to own it because they voted differently than you?
With views like that, I bet that if you were president, you would also be a tyrant who punishes political opponents.
It wouldn't be enough for you that they lose their mill, you want everyone who ever worked there to be punished.
see the good thing is there will probably be an opening in the market for somebody else to open a sawmill
not gonna get into whether or not it should be torn down, but "because they voted differently than you" is very disingenuous. it's because they support fascists. those are not the same thing.
It will be bought up by a large company. Thus wealth will continue to be consolidated. Nothing else matters.
No, it's generally only big company sawmills now. It's the same thing where stuff closes down and it's unprofitable for older small businesses. These guys were probably barely hanging on.
Most of their work was from overseas.
The domestic market obviously did not support this mill.
Odds are whatever company (and employees) fills the void will not be paying into the USA.
Your take is that it's un-american to produce a product for export?
My take is that tarriffs killed the ability for this mill to compete for its foreign customer's business, which was the majority of the business. After tarrifs there were not enough domestic customers to keep the doors open.
The mill that will meet the foreign needs will not be American because the dont have to add on tarrif increases.
Thus the jobs, business tax, payroll tax, and wages reinvested in the economy will all be going to some other nation.
The people who support fascists don't own the mill anymore! Whether or not it should be torn down was the only point that I was discussing in my comment.