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If you read the press releases the decision was made in Detroit so really don't think any political persuasion would have saved it regardless if they tipped in the $500 million that labor was going to waste.

The easiest way to have saved the industry would have been to get rid of luxury car tax and then the turnover of new vehicles would have saved them. Tax breaks only work for big companies if they are making money in the first instant, GM was going out the back door $50million a year.