Mercedes prepares to expand Alabama plant

20th March 2009

Mercedes has plans to expand its Vance, Alabama plant with a $290 million investment which will increase its capacity and allow it to add another vehicle to the plant. They have not formally announced these plans, but some details emerged when they requested and received property, sales and use tax abatements from the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority.

Senator Shelby, are you paying attention to this? I fully expect you to get on TV and tell us all about the evils of corporate welfare! How dare Daimler request the government to give them your state’s taxpayers’ hard-earned money. I demand a hearing!

We all know that Senator Richard “Dick” Shelby, R-AL will not hold any hearing, nor will he speak out against this tax abatement. Why? 1. Because he knows that car manaufacturing is good for the national and his local economies. 2. He is a hypocritical, two-faced “person” who was only trying to help out the (foreign) auto manufacturing of his home state when he blasted the Detroit 3 in the Senate hearings last fall. He cares nothing about the country as a whole, nor about doing what’s right. Only about what will help his own state. He and Nick Saban deserve each other.