of law tool, invest sh-ft billions of dollars in lordstown, in youngs town or at the g.m. plant in toledo or some of your suppliers, why don't you invest there instead of mexico. she didn't say this is the reason but it is pretty clear because this majority leader's body meeting in the white house, looking like a corporation for executives if we've ever seen such a thing they made a decision to give tax breaks to companies that move overseas. more companies are going to see it's attractive. they like the idea of a 50% off coupon to shut off production ins mansfield, ohio, and move to vietnam or china tor to south korea or to turkey or to mexico. imagine that. imagine the economic i will literacy and the moral -- the economic illiteracy and moral debauchery of setting up a tax bill that says we'll give you a lower tax rate if you move overseas. what kind of a congress passes a bill that says you move overseas, we'll lower your tax rate. that's what congress did. it was already bad enough before we passed this last tax bill but now we're seeing what i think is going to happe

if you're making, if you're making cars in youngstown, ohio, lordstown, or in toledo you're making the jeep or the chevy cruze in youngstown and you pay a 21% tax rate, that corporation, but if that corporation decides to move overseas they pay a tax rate of 10.5%. so, in other words, the federal government is saying, because of the tax bill the president signed just less than fewer than 12 months ago, the government is saying we're going to give a corporation a 50% off coupon on their taxes if they move overseas.

and lordstown. i can personally attest to how great these cars are. a number of members of my family including my wife and me for years drove a chevy cruze made by workers in lordstown. a couple of years ago my wife and i each bought jeep cherokees made by union labor in toledo. i can speak to how great these cars are because in october of 2016 a young man ran a stop siep. i was in the passenger seat. hit the jeep right where i sat. knocked this jeep 35, 40 feet -- knocked it 30, 40 feet off the road. neither i more the gentleman driving, will young were injured -- was injured because of american-made american-made steel, american-made -- the american-made jeep itself made in toledo, and because of the u.s. government with air bags and seat belts and all the kinds of rules they have set for auto safety. we know american cars made by american workers with american steel are the best in the world. too often though, american workers and american suppliers aren't competing on a level playing field. last fall, in the tax giveaway to corporations, republica