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And free health care. Nationalize all their pensions and increase the social security tax to pay for it. And increase the retirement age of everyone currently working by 5 years to ensure they stay working long enough to pay for the pensioners now. I'm sure there's still some employed middle class people who would happily pay for it.
If auto companies are such a strategic asset then we should be willing to pay whatever it takes to keep it running. I'd be fine with that. I'll just emigrate.