Dell’s recent downturn in sales has lead to job cuts at factories across the nation. Those who have been following the computer giant’s sales and marketing strategy may have seen this one coming.
Companies that are fiscally strong and growing don’t need to pit states and localities against one another to get the highest bid. They’ll choose to settle in areas that have stable policies that foster business growth.
From an editorial in the Greensboro News&Record:
Aside from investing with prudence and diversifying, the smartest move this region could make is to invest in itself. We can make ourselves attractive to future prospects not by dangling cash but by offering an educated work force, up-to-date infrastructure and a cost of living made competitive by controlling taxes. Well-managed companies eventually wind up in well-managed localities. Let’s be one.
