correct, that's why you should team up and expand the ground instead of just bolting off...
If the company believes that the product the plant is making will no longer sell well or is not going to be needed due to new technology, should they be forced to keep the plant open producing things that basically nobody will buy?
that's more your doing (or undoing) than ours...
And yet the big EU corporations still do business in and with the US; Airbus, Philips, Siemens, Daimler - all do a lot of business here and make kilotons of money off us. US corps seem to deal with the inverse just fine despite the EU's closed borders policy with us; US companies make tons of money off the EU. Doesn't seem like this much decried 'closed border' is a huge barrier to trade. Heck, it's such a barrier to trade that VAG even unloaded tons and tons of illegally polluting vehicles here - making millions and millions and millions of dollars in the process. Quite amusing that it was the US that ended up catching their little cheating arses in the end, too.
did i say it was? it shouldn't be either...
You used it against the UK as a reason for leaving. Belgium is not a tax haven either, so that's also a reason for companies to leave. And take their tax revenues with them.
and go where? an even stricter system?
Considering that the majority of FN's current revenue is coming from the Americas, they could potentially move to the US.
Keep in mind that California played the same kind of game with Toyota. "Your US HQ is here in California, why would you ever move elsewhere? Where ya gonna go? Someplace not as well developed, with fewer resources?"
Toyota moved some production and their North American corporate HQ (and R&D... and finance arm... and testing center... and and and...) to Texas instead. They ended all California production. Quality and corporate income went up. California is looking for something to fill the hole in their income. Tesla isn't filling it - and is also looking at leaving.
The "Where ya gonna go?" game often does not end well for the entity playing the game and asking the question. Detroit in general and GM in specific spent decades pissing all over their customers, telling them it was raining and asking them "Where ya gonna go, somewhere worse?" Starting in the 70s, but at an accelerating pace, customers
did go somewhere else, decided they liked it much better there (Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, etc.) and now GM is bleeding out.
Not a game you want to be playing.
inBev hasn't been belgian for a long time, it's basically a brazilian firm with a belgian headquarter
it's yet another multinational that's given slack because they provide a lot of jobs
And yet because they're headquartered in Belgium, they pay a lot of taxes directly and indirectly. If they leave, have fun filling that hole in your tax revenues.
fine...britain still shouldn't leave the EU...
and all the shit happening with Orban atm just shows we'll need them
Keep in mind that by and large, most publicly traded companies must be truthful about their reasons for major actions or they can be sued for tons of money by their shareholders. (Edit: Just ask Activision Blizzard about that - they're being buried under shareholder lawsuits now,
including several for the Bungie split.) You just said you wanted Honda to lie about their reasons:
honda should've cited brexit as the main reason (even if it wasn't)
...just to try to pressure the UK into staying in the EU.
Hmmmm.. You know what they call it when you try to underhandedly pressure someone into remaining in a relationship that they've decided (for whatever reason) they no longer want to be in with you?
Blackmail and emotional abuse. It also means that at this point the relationship has been revealed as an abusive one. Are you one of those people that likes abusing your significant other in such a way? I suggest you get some help if so.